1 00:00:01,319 --> 00:00:07,064 Welcome to Off the Console, the hottest new podcast that's all about gaming, tech news, and anything nerdy. 2 00:00:07,064 --> 00:00:19,265 This week we're covering the biggest news, including the big story, is, I think it's Assassin's Creed Shadows, but Hi Tech thinks it's the EU forcing changes with digital 3 00:00:19,265 --> 00:00:20,696 currency and conversions. 4 00:00:20,696 --> 00:00:24,632 So we're gonna see which one ends up being the biggest topic this week. 5 00:00:24,632 --> 00:00:27,286 And then we also have... 6 00:00:27,286 --> 00:00:37,218 NVIDIA's GTC event, Snapdragon coming out with a bunch of new tech including 1x player's version which is a microbot 1x trigger. 7 00:00:37,218 --> 00:00:39,280 It is a transformer in disguise. 8 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,282 And more. 9 00:00:40,282 --> 00:00:45,446 My name is James and I'm also joined with me by co-hosts Gardner and HiTech Lowlife. 10 00:00:45,446 --> 00:00:46,597 How you guys doing? 11 00:00:46,923 --> 00:00:47,552 Great. 12 00:00:47,552 --> 00:00:48,780 I'm doing all right. 13 00:00:49,525 --> 00:00:50,648 doing alright. 14 00:00:50,648 --> 00:00:53,363 mean, it could be worse, I guess. 15 00:00:53,490 --> 00:00:57,087 Well, you know, I didn't like waking up early to go to the DMV, so... 16 00:00:57,087 --> 00:01:01,451 I wake up every early so that I can do this podcast for everyone. 17 00:01:02,813 --> 00:01:04,435 every early, I don't know what I'm saying. 18 00:01:04,435 --> 00:01:08,038 That's every, I wake up early every Saturday. 19 00:01:08,038 --> 00:01:08,740 Yes, thank you. 20 00:01:08,740 --> 00:01:10,972 So Hi Tech, what have you been up to? 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,282 Well, you know, I've been playing video games. 22 00:01:13,282 --> 00:01:22,150 I've been playing Well, I was actually juggling three games, but I should probably finish one of them up and get to the other two So I was playing rise of running as I say before 23 00:01:22,150 --> 00:01:31,877 but then I was also sent a key for Atelier Yumiya and That's gonna be that's probably gonna be a really long one and then I was also sent a key for Gale guardians servants of 24 00:01:31,877 --> 00:01:34,348 the deep servants of the dark 25 00:01:34,504 --> 00:01:38,809 I think I shared that demo off on the stream the other day, if you recall. 26 00:01:40,532 --> 00:01:43,615 Anyways, lots of games these days, not a lot of time. 27 00:01:43,615 --> 00:01:50,604 I thought about getting Assassin's Creed Shadows, I really did, but I definitely wouldn't have time for it, so maybe I'll pick it up later when it's on sale or something. 28 00:01:50,604 --> 00:01:58,985 Yeah, we're we'll have we'll have some Something to talk about with Assassin's Creed because I have a couple of opinions on this which are both surprised in a good way in a 29 00:01:58,985 --> 00:02:02,141 bad way So it'll be interesting once we get there 30 00:02:02,141 --> 00:02:04,825 I have been up to a lot this week actually. 31 00:02:04,825 --> 00:02:09,713 just got, my son saw an ad or some person playing Astro Bot VR. 32 00:02:09,713 --> 00:02:15,453 I did not realize it was the original Astro Bot that came out a couple years ago for PlayStation 4 VR. 33 00:02:15,453 --> 00:02:16,086 I... 34 00:02:16,086 --> 00:02:22,191 Astro's toy or like Astro's toolbox or some shit playground 35 00:02:22,191 --> 00:02:22,822 was called. 36 00:02:22,822 --> 00:02:24,684 Playground, think, what it might be what it's called. 37 00:02:24,684 --> 00:02:32,701 But I got that, I'm installing it, but I need to charge my PS4 controller because it requires a PS4 controller, not a PS5 or anything else. 38 00:02:32,701 --> 00:02:35,505 So, getting that all set up, what? 39 00:02:35,505 --> 00:02:38,844 can't use the PS5 controller for that? 40 00:02:38,844 --> 00:02:41,045 No, because it requires the light bar. 41 00:02:41,045 --> 00:02:45,747 So the PS4 controller was designed in such a way that it could be used as a light bar for VR. 42 00:02:45,747 --> 00:02:50,670 So it has a light sensor so the camera can track it and it wants to use that. 43 00:02:50,670 --> 00:03:01,765 So where the PS5 has much better detection for motions and stuff like that, it's much more sensitive than the PS5, but the PS4, they relied on the light sensor. 44 00:03:01,765 --> 00:03:02,415 So. 45 00:03:02,424 --> 00:03:03,067 Hmm. 46 00:03:03,067 --> 00:03:10,914 Also tried out Half-Life 2 RTX, which we'll talk about later too, but let's just say I had a fun time, but there's a lot to uncover in this thing. 47 00:03:10,914 --> 00:03:13,977 And I'm gonna be very gracious because it is a mod. 48 00:03:13,977 --> 00:03:17,500 So take it with what you want, throw away from that what you want. 49 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:19,001 I also installed Bazite. 50 00:03:19,001 --> 00:03:27,287 It took a lot of work to get installed because, and I always forget this, creating, or especially Windows, creating Windows. 51 00:03:27,412 --> 00:03:38,365 Installation media media USB drives is so difficult off of a Mac but because I reformatted my windows and I just want to reformat it completely I decided not to create an 52 00:03:38,365 --> 00:03:45,500 installation Drive while I still had windows and so I only had my Mac to do it So I kind of screwed myself over for a few hours. 53 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:54,482 So I spent Saturday last week only doing this until I finally got a dual boot of Windows and bazite and Bazite with Nvidia 54 00:03:54,688 --> 00:04:01,827 still has a lot of work because when it goes to sleep and it wakes up, I get a lot of artifacting, meaning like the screens tearing all over the place. 55 00:04:01,827 --> 00:04:02,687 It is crazy. 56 00:04:02,687 --> 00:04:06,533 So I have to reset the PC every time if it goes to sleep. 57 00:04:06,765 --> 00:04:08,596 Ugh, yeah. 58 00:04:09,137 --> 00:04:10,558 I have a similar... 59 00:04:11,019 --> 00:04:12,220 I have a similar problem. 60 00:04:12,220 --> 00:04:15,383 I've got Ubuntu here on my desktop PC. 61 00:04:15,383 --> 00:04:21,328 I have the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed, and I will tell you right now, there is no sleep. 62 00:04:21,328 --> 00:04:22,619 You don't put your computer to sleep. 63 00:04:22,619 --> 00:04:24,951 You just shut it off, because if you put it to sleep, it... 64 00:04:24,951 --> 00:04:28,194 there's like a 80 % chance that it just does not recover. 65 00:04:28,194 --> 00:04:29,302 It's ridiculous. 66 00:04:29,302 --> 00:04:30,224 yep, is. 67 00:04:30,224 --> 00:04:36,349 I don't even, I feel like those types of bugs should be the ones they should be able to tackle the easiest. 68 00:04:36,349 --> 00:04:38,269 Like it should be, I don't know. 69 00:04:38,269 --> 00:04:44,632 They've been building software, hardware and software for how long now and they can't get a simple thing right? 70 00:04:44,632 --> 00:04:45,611 Yeah, Nvidia. 71 00:04:45,611 --> 00:04:48,936 Nvidia used to have really good Linux drivers, if I recall correctly. 72 00:04:48,936 --> 00:04:50,619 Yeah, they used to be like... 73 00:04:50,619 --> 00:04:52,712 Yeah, they used to be better than AMD in that regard. 74 00:04:52,712 --> 00:04:55,728 AMD used to be the one that was bad, but then, something happened. 75 00:04:55,728 --> 00:04:57,660 I don't know what happened, but something happened. 76 00:04:57,763 --> 00:04:59,934 They became assholes and that's what happened. 77 00:04:59,934 --> 00:05:00,790 Hmm. 78 00:05:01,792 --> 00:05:04,085 Nvidia Nvidia Nvidia 79 00:05:05,017 --> 00:05:15,117 And so I've it's obviously I don't get as good a performance in a lot of my games in Bazzai as I did with Windows, but I still get like if it does like because it's Nvidia, I 80 00:05:15,117 --> 00:05:16,797 think of his AMD, I think it'd be a little better. 81 00:05:16,797 --> 00:05:19,817 But some games do get really good performance. 82 00:05:19,817 --> 00:05:22,817 But like for 3090, you'd expect to be better. 83 00:05:22,817 --> 00:05:24,117 But I'm fine with that. 84 00:05:24,117 --> 00:05:31,517 I think my only downs like my the only crux of this whole thing is that I can't enter sleep mode and bring it back up easily. 85 00:05:31,665 --> 00:05:34,026 And I have a KVM, so I like to do that a lot. 86 00:05:34,026 --> 00:05:35,787 I like to switch back and forth. 87 00:05:35,787 --> 00:05:37,808 And so that's a little bit of a... 88 00:05:38,108 --> 00:05:46,132 We'll see if I fully switch over to BASA right now until I either get a new AMD GPU or they fix the Nvidia issues. 89 00:05:46,132 --> 00:05:50,594 But I am going to move my computer back and forth between my TV. 90 00:05:50,594 --> 00:05:55,996 One of the reasons I did this so I could play console mode on my TV for fun. 91 00:05:55,996 --> 00:05:58,430 Because I have some co-op games, but that's besides the point. 92 00:05:58,430 --> 00:05:59,101 Hmm. 93 00:05:59,101 --> 00:06:08,236 I did I don't normally buy stuff during the steam sell I did buy silent hill 2 and horizon forbidden west finally I've been waiting to get these for a while and they were pretty 94 00:06:08,236 --> 00:06:12,057 good deal and so I am Excited to play those in the next few weeks. 95 00:06:12,057 --> 00:06:15,122 So I have I did it a lot this week 96 00:06:15,122 --> 00:06:15,926 Mm. 97 00:06:16,546 --> 00:06:17,948 Dude, that sounds like a lot. 98 00:06:17,948 --> 00:06:21,765 You know, did they fix game mode with Nvidia? 99 00:06:21,765 --> 00:06:25,570 Because last I recall, game mode wasn't working with Nvidia drivers. 100 00:06:25,570 --> 00:06:26,041 It works. 101 00:06:26,041 --> 00:06:28,946 It just, if it goes to sleep, it doesn't. 102 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:37,862 You can boot into game mode, like it's not, it's a separate like session, or are you just opening big picture in Steam from KDE? 103 00:06:38,427 --> 00:06:39,307 I boot into it. 104 00:06:39,307 --> 00:06:51,121 I had to do it felt just like Steam OS, honestly, and I've used Bazzite before with AMD and and you know, with my with my handheld, but I don't know. 105 00:06:51,121 --> 00:06:54,419 It was I was able to get it to work for me just fine. 106 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:00,926 That being said, if it ends your sleep mode, you're screwed, whether or not it's desktop or game mode. 107 00:07:00,926 --> 00:07:05,341 But once you're in game mode, you exit the desktop and then you can reboot back into game mode. 108 00:07:05,341 --> 00:07:14,666 So and it even says it's game mode and everything not big pictures not like I can click in the big picture mode so You do have to as a note if anyone's doing this with bazai you do 109 00:07:14,666 --> 00:07:18,578 need to go in and if you have like a high refresh rate monitor Especially in game mode. 110 00:07:18,578 --> 00:07:20,749 It does not default to a high refresh rate. 111 00:07:20,749 --> 00:07:29,094 It defaults to like 30 or 60 frames and it's Really laggy if you're used to like a hundred Hertz or higher, so I 112 00:07:29,302 --> 00:07:30,643 you have to go through it. 113 00:07:30,643 --> 00:07:37,191 So if you see that and you're like, well, it's buggy and it's not working, just go into your desktop and change the refresh rate on your monitor. 114 00:07:37,382 --> 00:07:38,893 A little note there. 115 00:07:41,036 --> 00:07:42,609 yeah, Gardner, what have you been up to? 116 00:07:42,609 --> 00:07:49,414 So this week, I spent pretty much all of my time on making Doodlings open source. 117 00:07:49,414 --> 00:07:56,670 And I'm really happy to report that the code is now available under the GPL 3. 118 00:07:56,670 --> 00:08:07,600 And you can go over to blog.gardenerbryant.com and read this pretty long article that I wrote about my experience developing a game. 119 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:13,940 getting it ready for open source release and how you can download the source code yourself and help out if you're interested. 120 00:08:14,860 --> 00:08:21,980 And, yeah, it's, I had so much fun doing this. 121 00:08:21,980 --> 00:08:23,680 I learned a lot. 122 00:08:24,220 --> 00:08:34,400 Even just, I don't know if you guys know the whole story, but back in 2023, my brothers showed me a prototype they had been working on and they only spent like three weeks on it 123 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:34,800 or something. 124 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:35,898 And then, 125 00:08:35,898 --> 00:08:38,520 They were like, we're done with it and you can do whatever you want with it. 126 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:44,997 So me and my friend Ethan, who was my employee at the time, we were like, dude, let's just make this in Godot. 127 00:08:44,997 --> 00:08:52,263 And we ended up spending almost a year, maybe a little over a year, working on the game, getting it ready for release. 128 00:08:52,263 --> 00:08:53,965 And then it didn't sell at all. 129 00:08:53,965 --> 00:08:56,047 Like it sold so far. 130 00:08:56,047 --> 00:08:57,278 The game has been out for almost a year. 131 00:08:57,278 --> 00:08:58,830 We've sold like 900 copies. 132 00:08:58,830 --> 00:09:02,013 So it has not been particularly successful. 133 00:09:02,013 --> 00:09:06,597 But after we got the game released, I went in and I didn't write a single line of code for the game. 134 00:09:06,597 --> 00:09:12,183 I did all the art and I coordinated with the musicians that I hired and got that stuff working. 135 00:09:12,183 --> 00:09:20,349 But after the game released, Ethan went and got a different job and I ended up taking over development and I learned all about Godot. 136 00:09:20,349 --> 00:09:24,073 I had very little experience with it before and released Doodling's... 137 00:09:24,113 --> 00:09:33,073 Second base which was like a season two essentially and we basically doubled the feature set that was in the game in like two and half months And I was really proud of what I did 138 00:09:33,073 --> 00:09:36,973 but then like it didn't get the eyes that I wanted on it So I ended up being like alright. 139 00:09:36,973 --> 00:09:43,833 Well, you know, I'll just do something with this later eventually I was like hey, it's time. 140 00:09:43,833 --> 00:09:48,013 Let's make this open source and That's what I did for the last like three weeks. 141 00:09:48,013 --> 00:09:53,083 I've just made I've been going into the I went into the code we familiarize myself with it and 142 00:09:53,083 --> 00:09:59,981 polish it up and tried to backport some of the stuff I did for the Android build and bring that into the main mainline game so 143 00:09:59,981 --> 00:10:04,071 really cool that you made a post and everything about that to like your experience in doing that. 144 00:10:04,071 --> 00:10:07,257 I think it would make it an interesting video too if you haven't done that yet. 145 00:10:07,454 --> 00:10:13,289 Yeah, I wanna make a video about it, like, whenever I talk about the game, it never gets any views. 146 00:10:13,289 --> 00:10:20,283 Like, it gets like less than a thousand views when normally I get like 10,000 to 20,000 views on average. 147 00:10:20,324 --> 00:10:24,999 So, I really wanna make that post specifically into a video. 148 00:10:25,260 --> 00:10:27,371 I just don't know if people would watch it. 149 00:10:27,429 --> 00:10:28,201 I think you should. 150 00:10:28,201 --> 00:10:33,862 I think some people would be more curious about the behind the scenes more so than the actual game itself. 151 00:10:33,862 --> 00:10:34,850 Like, you know what saying? 152 00:10:34,850 --> 00:10:35,272 Yeah. 153 00:10:35,272 --> 00:10:35,927 Yeah. 154 00:10:35,927 --> 00:10:41,756 definitely don't make it too technical if you don't feel like you're, know, whoever's watching is going to be, you know, yeah. 155 00:10:42,074 --> 00:10:42,974 Mm-hmm. 156 00:10:43,576 --> 00:10:48,322 Yeah, but I mean that That's pretty much everything I did this week. 157 00:10:48,322 --> 00:10:53,921 Like yeah, I was just focused on the game So I didn't get to play anything else really I didn't get to do 158 00:10:53,921 --> 00:10:55,322 That feels like my normal week. 159 00:10:55,322 --> 00:10:59,305 I usually get distracted with stuff, which I probably will be very soon. 160 00:10:59,305 --> 00:11:01,487 I've been learning Godot. 161 00:11:01,487 --> 00:11:10,843 I'm not going to switch my game over to Godot anytime soon, but I want to learn it because eventually I do want to maybe even build my next one or maybe I'll port it over. 162 00:11:10,843 --> 00:11:14,306 But I don't think it does quite there for what type of game I like to make. 163 00:11:14,306 --> 00:11:17,998 But I'm I'm impressed with what with their progress. 164 00:11:18,339 --> 00:11:18,968 Me. 165 00:11:18,968 --> 00:11:19,859 Yeah. 166 00:11:21,645 --> 00:11:26,665 If you've seen Mickey 17, the movie that came out that's based on a book, 167 00:11:26,924 --> 00:11:28,984 The one by Bong Joon Ho. 168 00:11:29,183 --> 00:11:36,361 Yeah, that's essentially I watched this like this is like the core of the idea that I had besides printing on a human. 169 00:11:36,361 --> 00:11:38,574 But it was cloning, essentially. 170 00:11:38,574 --> 00:11:43,739 And so every time you die, your clone is stuck in that area. 171 00:11:44,091 --> 00:11:48,525 Or like, you you just see your body and you'll respond at your cloner and then you'll see your bodies. 172 00:11:48,525 --> 00:11:52,588 you persistence will happen with bodies so you can see your dead bodies everywhere. 173 00:11:52,588 --> 00:11:53,928 Some other shenanigans. 174 00:11:53,928 --> 00:11:58,940 And so I'm building a game based off of that in space in a spaceship or colony ship. 175 00:11:58,940 --> 00:12:02,661 So I'm working with someone on it. 176 00:12:02,661 --> 00:12:05,693 And so it is going to either be. 177 00:12:05,693 --> 00:12:07,293 They want to do it as a third person. 178 00:12:07,293 --> 00:12:09,213 I want to do it as a first person. 179 00:12:09,253 --> 00:12:10,253 so we're going to... 180 00:12:10,253 --> 00:12:16,253 And the way that Unreal does it anyways, like I have it set up so you can switch between third and first. 181 00:12:16,253 --> 00:12:20,073 And so we're going to figure that out eventually. 182 00:12:20,733 --> 00:12:21,113 Yeah. 183 00:12:21,113 --> 00:12:31,131 think, I, those are, I recall there was a game that was in development that is actually based on Godot but it looks like a, it tries to look like a modern AAA game. 184 00:12:31,131 --> 00:12:33,403 I think it was called Road to Vostok or something like that. 185 00:12:33,403 --> 00:12:34,235 To Vostok. 186 00:12:34,235 --> 00:12:46,240 it it looks like it is stalker inspired it looks like a stalker game it's I played it at least the demo it's an open-world survival game right 187 00:12:46,625 --> 00:12:53,305 Yeah, so it was being developed in Unity before Unity went and did their... 188 00:12:53,305 --> 00:12:54,956 How long ago was that? 189 00:12:54,956 --> 00:12:56,023 two or three years now. 190 00:12:56,023 --> 00:12:59,463 Yeah, I don't think they've recovered to be honest. 191 00:13:00,022 --> 00:13:10,938 They're still producing a lot of features and it looks promising because they, you know, I believe that CEO got kicked out or stepped down, I don't know, but the EA CEO, like the EA 192 00:13:10,938 --> 00:13:24,704 guy that came from, you know, that came from EA, but I don't care to know his, to remember his name because he did such a shit job and pretty much tanked a very popular indie 193 00:13:24,704 --> 00:13:25,606 cool. 194 00:13:25,773 --> 00:13:28,021 So yeah. 195 00:13:28,021 --> 00:13:33,872 You know, you know that reminds me, have you guys played No More Heroes? 196 00:13:33,872 --> 00:13:34,144 No. 197 00:13:34,144 --> 00:13:36,412 I have not, but it's on my playlist. 198 00:13:36,412 --> 00:13:37,317 I want to play it. 199 00:13:37,317 --> 00:13:42,058 No More Heroes 3 features like a demon, like the main bad guy. 200 00:13:42,058 --> 00:13:46,036 He's based on John Rishitello because Suda 50... 201 00:13:46,036 --> 00:13:47,387 Suda 50... 202 00:13:47,387 --> 00:13:51,546 Suda basically hates him because he like tried to mess with No More Heroes. 203 00:13:52,307 --> 00:13:53,127 It's... 204 00:13:53,788 --> 00:13:54,929 It's crazy. 205 00:13:54,929 --> 00:13:55,870 It's a wild story. 206 00:13:55,870 --> 00:13:58,872 It's like a really whack, like, Japanese game. 207 00:13:58,952 --> 00:14:00,313 But, you know, that's... 208 00:14:00,974 --> 00:14:02,914 John, it's John Riccatello, right? 209 00:14:02,914 --> 00:14:09,934 Like he's the guy that was running Unity and screwed that up and then he was also a part of EA at some point, right? 210 00:14:10,858 --> 00:14:13,949 I think he was like a major leader in EA. 211 00:14:13,949 --> 00:14:17,581 Like I think he was actually like CEO or something, if I'm not mistaken. 212 00:14:18,162 --> 00:14:19,623 Or COO, I don't know. 213 00:14:19,623 --> 00:14:22,344 But he was big in EA, we'll just say that. 214 00:14:23,645 --> 00:14:25,305 Definitely a bad guy. 215 00:14:25,426 --> 00:14:34,546 Well, I am curious about our first topic today, but before we get into that, make sure to subscribe on YouTube if you're there or follow us if you're on any of the podcasting 216 00:14:34,546 --> 00:14:37,759 platforms that you listen to this that allows you to do that. 217 00:14:37,759 --> 00:14:45,204 You can also follow our RSS feed at podcast.subscribed2.me or you can engage with us on the Fediverse. 218 00:14:45,204 --> 00:14:53,761 at offtheconsoleshow at podcast.subscribed2.me and yeah, like go write us a message there and we're gonna start responding a little soon. 219 00:14:53,761 --> 00:15:03,548 So now let's get into our first topic, which is the EU forces changes in how games deal with virtual currency conversions and real prices. 220 00:15:03,548 --> 00:15:09,528 And this is an interesting topic, something that we've kind of talked about in the past, but 221 00:15:09,528 --> 00:15:12,133 Hi Tech is our man for this explainer. 222 00:15:12,133 --> 00:15:13,833 What's going on here, Hi Tech? 223 00:15:13,833 --> 00:15:25,723 So, do you know how many triple- not even triple-A games, you know how many games force you to buy a currency and then you use that currency to buy, I dunno, rolls for the gacha 224 00:15:25,723 --> 00:15:29,106 or buy skins from Fortnite with your V-Bucks? 225 00:15:29,106 --> 00:15:31,288 You understand that gig, right? 226 00:15:31,408 --> 00:15:41,056 And you understand how none of those items are ever displayed in actual dollar value, they're only displayed in, I dunno, V-Bucks. 227 00:15:41,059 --> 00:15:41,689 points. 228 00:15:41,689 --> 00:15:42,649 Microsoft points or whatever. 229 00:15:42,649 --> 00:15:45,751 Like yeah, this has been happening since the 360 era. 230 00:15:45,751 --> 00:15:46,941 let's do some conversions. 231 00:15:46,941 --> 00:15:49,002 Let's look up a pretty popular skin. 232 00:15:49,002 --> 00:15:50,012 Let's see. 233 00:15:50,012 --> 00:15:53,144 Fortnite skin prices. 234 00:15:53,144 --> 00:15:56,857 Let's say 2,000 V bucks for the most expensive skins. 235 00:15:56,857 --> 00:16:00,119 Now let's look at V bucks conversion rate. 236 00:16:00,119 --> 00:16:03,619 So, one V-Buck is approximately one cent. 237 00:16:03,619 --> 00:16:07,939 So guess it's a little bit more of a fair conversion in the favor of Fortnite. 238 00:16:08,199 --> 00:16:10,979 let's say, for example, Destiny 2. 239 00:16:11,099 --> 00:16:17,930 There was a really egregious example of Destiny 2 where the season pass was 15 bucks. 240 00:16:17,930 --> 00:16:26,330 But there was no direct way to buy $15 worth of silver, I believe the currency was. 241 00:16:26,734 --> 00:16:29,194 You had to buy like a $10 or $20. 242 00:16:29,414 --> 00:16:31,034 The season pass was $15. 243 00:16:31,034 --> 00:16:37,574 So effectively, the season pass was $20 because you had to buy the $20 pack. 244 00:16:37,714 --> 00:16:42,834 And then you'd have 500 left over and then you can buy whatever. 245 00:16:42,834 --> 00:16:45,074 But the EU was trying to combat that, basically. 246 00:16:45,074 --> 00:16:48,254 They're trying to combat this in two particular ways. 247 00:16:48,434 --> 00:16:54,545 First is that they want real prices to be displayed next to the virtual currency. 248 00:16:54,545 --> 00:17:06,356 And second, they want companies to stop doing that thing where you buy a certain amount and then everything in the shop is a little less than that amount, so you have a little 249 00:17:06,356 --> 00:17:13,676 bit left over, so you feel compelled to spend more money to use up that 200 or so points you have left over, otherwise it's just a waste, right? 250 00:17:15,036 --> 00:17:23,256 Those are the two main things I want to target because, let's be honest, kids don't know jack squat about conversion rates. 251 00:17:24,096 --> 00:17:25,307 It's a learning opportunity. 252 00:17:25,307 --> 00:17:29,386 That's what they're offering your kids is a learning opportunity with your money. 253 00:17:29,386 --> 00:17:35,337 I'll be dead before my kid- I'll be dead before I have any kids that learn conversion rates on Fortnite. 254 00:17:36,593 --> 00:17:39,099 A predatory learning opportunity. 255 00:17:40,023 --> 00:17:41,987 Yeah. 256 00:17:41,987 --> 00:17:42,687 at the bright side. 257 00:17:42,687 --> 00:17:48,895 Epic makes Fortnite Academic Edition like Microsoft did with Minecraft years ago. 258 00:17:48,895 --> 00:17:51,157 I don't know, it depends on how it goes. 259 00:17:51,157 --> 00:17:53,380 I just don't like in-game currency. 260 00:17:53,380 --> 00:18:03,710 I used to kind of be okay with this, but more and more I'm just, give us a flat price for everything and we'll buy it because really, anytime you use these points to buy skins or 261 00:18:03,710 --> 00:18:09,212 do anything, it just feels like short-term gains and I think people are getting more more fatigued. 262 00:18:09,212 --> 00:18:11,893 I think the companies are still making a lot of money, but. 263 00:18:12,047 --> 00:18:14,278 More more companies are going after this. 264 00:18:14,639 --> 00:18:17,541 And I don't think it's going to work. 265 00:18:17,541 --> 00:18:19,222 And companies need to start understanding that. 266 00:18:19,222 --> 00:18:21,674 And it's just going to keep on poisoning games. 267 00:18:21,674 --> 00:18:29,329 let's say a favorite franchise of ours becomes a live service game and they inject this in. 268 00:18:29,690 --> 00:18:32,202 This is just going to poison that game and destroy it. 269 00:18:32,202 --> 00:18:35,024 And then the higher ups think, well, this game's dead now. 270 00:18:35,024 --> 00:18:36,745 So we're not going to create anything else. 271 00:18:36,745 --> 00:18:39,981 I feel like that's kind of what's happening in this era now. 272 00:18:39,981 --> 00:18:46,004 is that franchises and IPs are kind of going this route and they're getting the wrong idea. 273 00:18:46,185 --> 00:18:52,570 They're just chasing that money and in short term gains that destroy long term IPs, in my opinion on this. 274 00:18:52,659 --> 00:18:53,000 Yeah. 275 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,663 Like this is a serious question. 276 00:18:54,663 --> 00:19:01,101 Why are they why are they going after this kind of behavior and not gift cards? 277 00:19:01,101 --> 00:19:01,827 the EU? 278 00:19:01,827 --> 00:19:05,552 cards, yeah, mean, gift cards are essentially the same thing. 279 00:19:05,552 --> 00:19:08,003 It's just they pretend that it's real money. 280 00:19:08,184 --> 00:19:10,607 And it's not. 281 00:19:10,607 --> 00:19:15,092 They're at least using like dollar or euro valuation, which is fine. 282 00:19:15,092 --> 00:19:19,396 But the fact is, gift cards are the exact same thing, right? 283 00:19:19,396 --> 00:19:21,419 They only have them in fixed increments. 284 00:19:21,419 --> 00:19:24,029 If you buy something that's less, you have 285 00:19:24,029 --> 00:19:34,676 money left on your gift card that you have to then go spend more money in order to use it like they're they're predatory and they're awful and i don't understand why they're going 286 00:19:34,676 --> 00:19:36,217 after one and not the other 287 00:19:36,644 --> 00:19:41,305 So gift cards, I'd definitely say like, Steam does this right, in my opinion. 288 00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:49,005 You get a $20 gift card, because I like to give them to my kids for stocking stuffers and stuff like that, like Minecraft too. 289 00:19:49,805 --> 00:19:57,765 But with Steam, you can apply all your balance to a game and then pay the rest in with a card. 290 00:19:57,765 --> 00:20:00,005 So you could utilize everything. 291 00:20:00,005 --> 00:20:01,361 I like that. 292 00:20:01,695 --> 00:20:04,567 Minecraft though on the other hand, you cannot do that. 293 00:20:04,567 --> 00:20:10,464 You can't just add more, use all your points and then spend a little bit more in a card to use all those points. 294 00:20:10,464 --> 00:20:18,021 So I think this is what they need to tackle is you cannot have waste and it looks like they're trying to do that. 295 00:20:18,021 --> 00:20:26,128 So gift cards, as long as they equate it to the money, there's an equate, like there essentially looks like they're trying to fix that gift card problem. 296 00:20:26,128 --> 00:20:29,198 The gift card, you get it and then you have leftover. 297 00:20:29,198 --> 00:20:33,752 and you can't really use it, it's kind of a waste and the company ends up winning because of that. 298 00:20:33,752 --> 00:20:44,210 And so hopefully with this, it kind of forces them to start equating things to a price and then hopefully get rid of that waste in points. 299 00:20:44,608 --> 00:20:51,283 lot of the article from Europe is more specifically directed towards the lack of understanding how much something really is. 300 00:20:51,283 --> 00:21:03,507 Because, like, like Fortnite's fair because, you know, Fortnite's more fair because, you know, one VBucket is one cent USD, but plenty of other games have, let's just say, crazier 301 00:21:03,507 --> 00:21:05,778 conversion rates. 302 00:21:05,778 --> 00:21:10,059 you don't, and honestly, without knowing off the top of your head how much, like, 303 00:21:10,179 --> 00:21:17,059 a $10 skew is or whatever, then you're not gonna know what the price is of those items, realistically speaking. 304 00:21:17,299 --> 00:21:19,739 Well, do you remember Microsoft points? 305 00:21:19,739 --> 00:21:20,679 Do you remember how much? 306 00:21:20,679 --> 00:21:22,559 Do you remember the conversion rate? 307 00:21:22,659 --> 00:21:26,603 Like $10 was 800 Microsoft points. 308 00:21:26,603 --> 00:21:27,505 yes, that's right. 309 00:21:27,505 --> 00:21:30,555 And then sixteen hundred was twenty dollars, yeah. 310 00:21:30,555 --> 00:21:33,995 like it was crazy. 311 00:21:34,035 --> 00:21:45,155 And then Microsoft got pissed at harmonics because rock band DLC was like they priced it at such a low price point that you could actually spend your leftover Microsoft points and 312 00:21:45,155 --> 00:21:47,215 you didn't have to add too much more. 313 00:21:47,215 --> 00:21:48,935 And Microsoft got mad at harmonics. 314 00:21:48,935 --> 00:21:50,055 Do you remember that? 315 00:21:50,055 --> 00:21:51,418 We're trying to make them. 316 00:21:51,418 --> 00:21:51,929 idea. 317 00:21:51,929 --> 00:21:55,165 Like, okay, you have a little extra points, you spend it with us. 318 00:21:55,165 --> 00:21:57,880 Like, that seems like an amazing business idea. 319 00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,497 You take advantage of that. 320 00:21:59,497 --> 00:22:01,291 this controversy at all. 321 00:22:01,291 --> 00:22:03,534 What did Microsoft do to Harmonix? 322 00:22:03,591 --> 00:22:09,506 Well, they were they were trying to pressure harmonics to raise the prices of rock band DLC Yeah, like that. 323 00:22:09,506 --> 00:22:12,929 You remember how they were forcing do you remember they forced valve to like? 324 00:22:12,929 --> 00:22:23,148 Make left for dead and left for dead 2 expansions paid like they were free on steam and you had to pay for them on Xbox Yeah, dude 325 00:22:23,148 --> 00:22:27,661 I only played that game on Steam, I was free. 326 00:22:27,661 --> 00:22:29,843 They were horrible back then too. 327 00:22:30,299 --> 00:22:31,301 That's... 328 00:22:31,605 --> 00:22:32,807 That's pretty bad. 329 00:22:32,958 --> 00:22:36,740 I'm pretty sure, yeah, basically whoever wins makes the rules, dude. 330 00:22:36,740 --> 00:22:44,044 Like Sony makes the rules by doing, though to be fair though, these, they, yeah. 331 00:22:44,581 --> 00:22:53,297 To be fair though, Sony isn't as bad as Microsoft was at their most powerful, but they're still pretty bad, I would say. 332 00:22:53,297 --> 00:23:01,944 I feel like Valve is winning because they are balancing it enough with what the people want, what players want, where EA, Ubisoft, and a lot of other companies that were at the 333 00:23:01,944 --> 00:23:07,508 top are feeling hard right now because they still don't understand what the players want. 334 00:23:08,470 --> 00:23:10,130 And they're just full of it. 335 00:23:10,311 --> 00:23:11,733 And they did short term games. 336 00:23:11,733 --> 00:23:14,826 And that's another thing, players don't know what shit they want sometimes. 337 00:23:14,826 --> 00:23:16,897 I'm sorry, I am a player. 338 00:23:17,297 --> 00:23:27,508 And I sometimes don't know what I want, they we complain about everything sometimes, and so it does give mixed signals, I think, to companies to to give them a little bit of 339 00:23:27,508 --> 00:23:35,223 That's why you should never appeal to every, like, you shouldn't appeal to everyone because no one's gonna be satisfied if you do that. 340 00:23:35,223 --> 00:23:38,975 You should appeal to your audience and, you know, we're all different. 341 00:23:38,975 --> 00:23:40,886 We all have different tastes in video games. 342 00:23:40,947 --> 00:23:55,585 What gamers really want is unfairly priced and obscurely priced DLC and season passes for Halo infinite and shit, you know, that's what that's what we really want Yeah 343 00:23:55,585 --> 00:23:58,808 you think Monster Hunter Wild's sold really well? 344 00:23:58,949 --> 00:24:00,890 Because it runs like shit on PC. 345 00:24:00,890 --> 00:24:04,096 if you're if you're a content creator, you're making bank off that. 346 00:24:04,096 --> 00:24:06,138 So some gamers want that. 347 00:24:09,022 --> 00:24:09,504 So. 348 00:24:09,504 --> 00:24:12,981 I mean, that kind of kind of goes into the next topic, but it's. 349 00:24:12,981 --> 00:24:15,754 We I don't know like Dead Space is a great example. 350 00:24:15,754 --> 00:24:24,349 I want Dead Space and I want it in a certain way and You don't need to add all this extra fluff you don't need to try to get so many more like they'd be so profitable with that 351 00:24:24,349 --> 00:24:35,466 game if they just Let the like the the dev studio that worked on the remake just keep on making them like they'd be very profitable if they kept it to a very tight-knit Small team 352 00:24:35,466 --> 00:24:36,816 very passionate 353 00:24:36,938 --> 00:24:40,538 and didn't overblow the budget or anything, because it's a cult classic. 354 00:24:40,538 --> 00:24:45,978 And so you have a very strong group that will keep on buying it. 355 00:24:46,278 --> 00:24:48,418 yeah, you know, can't do that. 356 00:24:48,418 --> 00:24:50,418 Got to go for the biggest gamble. 357 00:24:50,418 --> 00:24:58,818 mean, these guys that run these things, you know, they run these gambling essentially loot box, right? 358 00:24:58,818 --> 00:25:00,578 It's almost essentially gambling. 359 00:25:00,598 --> 00:25:02,249 They're caught up in their own gambling. 360 00:25:02,249 --> 00:25:12,016 predicament because they're just trying to go for the biggest bag that they can of gold with every instead of just playing it little safer, but Speaking of Assassin's Creed 361 00:25:12,016 --> 00:25:21,421 shadows It has a major controversy it's had a major controversy since it was launched late or since it was announced and we've talked about this multiple times, but it is finally 362 00:25:21,421 --> 00:25:22,441 out and 363 00:25:22,441 --> 00:25:25,711 It's doing okay as far as reviews go. 364 00:25:25,711 --> 00:25:31,060 I haven't looked at the Metacritic score, but when I saw it a couple days ago, it seemed like it was doing decent. 365 00:25:31,060 --> 00:25:34,104 And the Japanese people have a few things to say about this. 366 00:25:34,104 --> 00:25:35,695 Hi Tech, do you wanna take over? 367 00:25:35,922 --> 00:25:42,705 Yeah, so the Metacredit score sits at an 81, which is generally speaking pretty good. 368 00:25:42,705 --> 00:25:43,351 That's... 369 00:25:43,351 --> 00:25:45,723 Isn't that similar to what Gososhima is? 370 00:25:46,008 --> 00:25:48,579 Let's find out, think Ghost of Shriemon was a little higher. 371 00:25:48,728 --> 00:25:52,384 It's a little higher, but it's similar from my understanding, and so... 372 00:25:52,466 --> 00:25:59,170 So Ghost of Tsushima, Director's Edition, was 87, so it's a fair bit higher. 373 00:25:59,170 --> 00:26:10,628 The user score was a lot higher though for Ghost of Tsushima, with Ghost of Tsushima having 8.3, and Assassin's Creed Shadows having a 5.4, but we don't worry about user 374 00:26:10,628 --> 00:26:11,515 reviews. 375 00:26:11,515 --> 00:26:22,025 half those users haven't played it and I hate people that review bomb stuff that That don't play it at least play it and then say it that you don't like it 376 00:26:24,126 --> 00:26:29,426 So to be fair though, the Japanese government did not mention Assassin's Creed Shadows by name. 377 00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:39,066 But they were concerned about games that would encourage people to go out and about and destroy Japanese shrines and stuff. 378 00:26:39,066 --> 00:26:44,146 These are like religious sites, and at the very least they're cultural sites as well. 379 00:26:44,146 --> 00:26:48,526 And you really, as a good tourist, you really shouldn't be doing that anyways. 380 00:26:48,848 --> 00:26:50,376 or even as a good citizen, to be honest. 381 00:26:50,376 --> 00:26:54,001 Like, you wouldn't go up and deface the Washington Monument. 382 00:26:54,686 --> 00:26:56,668 100 % American would. 383 00:26:56,668 --> 00:27:00,091 So here, we've seen it over the years. 384 00:27:00,091 --> 00:27:02,954 I, okay, I have a little bit less, I'm a little bit more lenient. 385 00:27:02,954 --> 00:27:05,236 If it's like a Confederate statue, I don't care. 386 00:27:05,236 --> 00:27:06,437 They lost, whatever. 387 00:27:06,437 --> 00:27:12,381 But like, if it's a religious thing or whatever, like stop this. 388 00:27:12,381 --> 00:27:18,748 And then on top of that, Americans going over to Japan have been getting more and more in trouble because they're assholes. 389 00:27:18,748 --> 00:27:19,930 And it's mostly these. 390 00:27:19,930 --> 00:27:23,615 Dumbass streamers that go over there and just ruin it for everyone else. 391 00:27:23,615 --> 00:27:29,310 They're starting to kick us out of areas Like just anyone that's Yeah, sorry continue high tech 392 00:27:29,310 --> 00:27:31,771 I could probably pass because I'm not white, but. 393 00:27:31,771 --> 00:27:33,247 Well, good for you. 394 00:27:33,247 --> 00:27:34,910 I wish I could do 395 00:27:34,910 --> 00:27:46,767 Dude if I went to Japan I would be like three feet taller than everybody else from probably not three feet, but like I'm Yeah, I'm six I would not blend in in any way shape 396 00:27:46,767 --> 00:27:58,023 or form I'm pasty white so I like I don't know I've heard that tall people though like in Japan I've heard that they get like a lot of like favorable attention because they're like 397 00:27:58,023 --> 00:28:01,525 they're like, my god a tall person But I don't know 398 00:28:01,738 --> 00:28:13,423 So I think the crux of the whole situation with Assassin's Creed Shadows is the fact that the main character is Yasuke from history, which we should mention was a real historical 399 00:28:13,423 --> 00:28:13,844 figure. 400 00:28:13,844 --> 00:28:20,189 Assassin's Creed has always taken liberty with historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci definitely was not an assassin. 401 00:28:20,189 --> 00:28:25,229 and a flying... 402 00:28:25,229 --> 00:28:27,949 no, he definitely designed one. 403 00:28:27,949 --> 00:28:29,489 It might have been a spaceship. 404 00:28:30,549 --> 00:28:34,213 According to Futurama, it was a spaceship that he designed. 405 00:28:34,213 --> 00:28:35,078 my gosh, that's- 406 00:28:35,078 --> 00:28:41,897 Yeah, no, it's just the whole series is historical fiction and always has been. 407 00:28:41,897 --> 00:28:49,543 It has a thread of history in it that's real mixed in with a lot of not real assassins. 408 00:28:49,543 --> 00:29:00,863 I think my favorite, I think my, I think the craziest like historical deviation that Assassin's Creed has ever done was back in Assassin's Creed 2 where it was revealed in 409 00:29:00,863 --> 00:29:05,443 like some logs that, I think we talked about this last week didn't we? 410 00:29:05,443 --> 00:29:11,363 That Henry Ford, FDR, and Hitler were all in cahoots as Templars. 411 00:29:12,363 --> 00:29:19,377 And I think they were all, I think they were, I think they, and I think World War 2 was like a manufactured like war for some. 412 00:29:19,377 --> 00:29:22,701 bullshit lyrics I don't fucking remember that's all I remember 413 00:29:22,701 --> 00:29:24,186 just wonderful. 414 00:29:26,317 --> 00:29:27,063 It's 415 00:29:27,063 --> 00:29:31,421 quote my favorite adult cartoon, that's just ugly. 416 00:29:32,764 --> 00:29:37,726 But yeah, Assassin's Creed Shadows surprisingly runs kind of okay on the Steam Deck. 417 00:29:37,726 --> 00:29:38,499 From what I've seen. 418 00:29:38,499 --> 00:29:42,118 you're online and can connect and verify your DRM. 419 00:29:42,118 --> 00:29:52,609 I have some videos I'll be playing while we talk about this actually I forgot but the prime minister and also I think it was like a far right or a right leaning politician had 420 00:29:52,609 --> 00:30:02,220 some like is using this to kind of play his game to try to get favor and to get a position in I don't know some some position and politically there but the prime minister did come 421 00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:04,643 out and say some stuff that you mentioned already high tech did we 422 00:30:04,643 --> 00:30:05,215 the quote? 423 00:30:05,215 --> 00:30:10,830 Did you see anywhere in there that talked about Assassin's Creed doing that or? 424 00:30:10,830 --> 00:30:16,523 No, as I mentioned earlier, the game Assassin's Creed Shadows was not mentioned by name. 425 00:30:16,523 --> 00:30:17,660 No, it was not. 426 00:30:17,660 --> 00:30:20,409 And that's what's kind of frustrating about this. 427 00:30:20,452 --> 00:30:29,344 I will say that Ubisoft did release a Day 1 patch where you cannot destroy temples anymore and stuff like that. 428 00:30:29,633 --> 00:30:33,274 they did stuff like that, which at the end of the it's a game. 429 00:30:33,454 --> 00:30:38,996 I do disagree with Japan in some things sometimes where it's a game. 430 00:30:38,996 --> 00:30:40,616 Let people have some liberties. 431 00:30:40,616 --> 00:30:42,737 It's a modder that wants to mod a Japanese game. 432 00:30:42,737 --> 00:30:44,487 Don't put them in jail if they're Japanese. 433 00:30:44,487 --> 00:30:48,466 Like they definitely have some archaic laws on some of those stuff. 434 00:30:48,466 --> 00:30:50,299 And so I don't this isn't a law. 435 00:30:50,299 --> 00:30:57,581 They're just, you know, the prime minister is speaking out, but they're just worried that it's going to. 436 00:30:58,309 --> 00:31:05,573 cause people to go and graffiti things because they like to mimic art sometimes, you know. 437 00:31:05,593 --> 00:31:16,639 I don't, if that's the case, then we need to ban GTA because here in America, you know, there's a lot of potentially mimics, but yeah, exactly. 438 00:31:16,639 --> 00:31:17,900 So I don't know. 439 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:19,261 It's a hard one. 440 00:31:19,261 --> 00:31:22,062 We have GTA already where you can do so much. 441 00:31:22,062 --> 00:31:26,544 I don't know about defacing, but you can do a lot of interesting things in GTA. 442 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:33,156 Dude, if GTA had like destruction physics, that'd be kinda cool to be honest. 443 00:31:33,156 --> 00:31:34,276 But it doesn't. 444 00:31:35,198 --> 00:31:39,382 Like you could destroy like light poles, but like, come on dude, that's like basic shit. 445 00:31:39,582 --> 00:31:50,075 If they added that feature though It would have to be persistent across the entire open world and within just like a week of playing you would have destroyed the entire Los 446 00:31:50,075 --> 00:32:06,129 Angeles County so or whatever Yeah, wanted to point out a few things that I'm seeing here The first thing I haven't heard anybody talk about this, but the game is retail like is 447 00:32:06,129 --> 00:32:08,442 retailing for $70 448 00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:09,678 Yeah. 449 00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:13,618 $10 more than a typical AAA game retails for. 450 00:32:13,738 --> 00:32:18,098 And so it's $69.99. 451 00:32:18,476 --> 00:32:20,281 I think that is the standard now. 452 00:32:20,281 --> 00:32:23,506 That's the new standard for PS5 stuff. 453 00:32:23,708 --> 00:32:24,280 Yeah. 454 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:29,885 Well, we were talking about recently like, grant the thought of five retailing for a hundred dollars. 455 00:32:30,446 --> 00:32:35,194 And, this is just, you know, one step towards that inevitability, right? 456 00:32:35,194 --> 00:32:40,885 Yeah, Sony's been trying to make games $70 since like... 457 00:32:40,885 --> 00:32:45,560 PS5 came out and unfortunately they've been largely successful of that. 458 00:32:46,286 --> 00:32:47,373 Unfortunately. 459 00:32:47,373 --> 00:32:48,875 They've been fairly successful. 460 00:32:48,875 --> 00:32:56,382 definitely for me I Unless it's a game that I must have I don't buy it at that and I buy it on PC because it's usually ten dollars cheaper 461 00:32:56,409 --> 00:32:57,229 Yeah. 462 00:32:57,550 --> 00:33:07,304 This is the first time I've seen, like, I don't pay attention to most AAA games, honestly, so I might be, you old and out of touch, but this is the first time I've ever seen, like, 463 00:33:07,304 --> 00:33:10,391 a AAA game debut at 70 bucks on Steam. 464 00:33:10,391 --> 00:33:12,332 Am I out of touch? 465 00:33:12,769 --> 00:33:13,663 Yeah. 466 00:33:13,776 --> 00:33:19,552 I think Dragon's Dogma also debuted at 7- Quite a few games have debuted at 70 at this point on Steam. 467 00:33:19,552 --> 00:33:20,047 okay. 468 00:33:20,047 --> 00:33:28,872 it's a console game right now, it's coming out that way, unless it's a game, what is it called from? 469 00:33:28,872 --> 00:33:33,616 It takes, like a double A game, it takes two, what's their new game? 470 00:33:33,616 --> 00:33:34,956 You know, it takes two developers. 471 00:33:34,956 --> 00:33:36,716 was the new game that they split fiction? 472 00:33:36,716 --> 00:33:38,096 That one came out at 50. 473 00:33:38,096 --> 00:33:40,496 I think was it 49 or 59? 474 00:33:40,576 --> 00:33:42,136 I can't. 475 00:33:42,136 --> 00:33:46,436 I think it's 49, at least for the PC version, which is there you go. 476 00:33:46,436 --> 00:33:50,996 Like I feel like and it is gotten really good reviews. 477 00:33:50,996 --> 00:33:54,996 It's it's I'm getting I'm seeing nine out of tens at a lot of places. 478 00:33:54,996 --> 00:34:01,496 And so I could see it being a potential contender for a game of the year or at least some awards this year. 479 00:34:01,496 --> 00:34:02,358 So. 480 00:34:02,358 --> 00:34:03,919 I am watching the footage. 481 00:34:03,919 --> 00:34:05,491 I'm gonna level with you. 482 00:34:05,491 --> 00:34:15,610 I don't like how some of the enemies are lot like Tankier like they're like bullet spon- not bullet sponges, but they're basically like sponges especially that guy that they 483 00:34:15,610 --> 00:34:24,208 fought at the end where like He was literally unarmored and he took like a million slashes to kill Maybe he- I think he was like a commander or something like that. 484 00:34:24,208 --> 00:34:25,447 I'm not sure But 485 00:34:25,447 --> 00:34:32,442 It feels like Gozutsushima and I really honestly I'm here for this like for this Assassin's Creed. 486 00:34:33,117 --> 00:34:35,286 I like it, but. 487 00:34:35,286 --> 00:34:40,140 If we look at this footage, this actually looks pretty good. 488 00:34:40,140 --> 00:34:50,007 If this was running on the Steam Deck, and it shows that it's Steam Deck gaming shows that it's running on the Steam Deck fairly decent, like at a fairly consistent FPS. 489 00:34:50,007 --> 00:34:57,002 But if I go and look at some, if we look at a different video, it doesn't look as nice as this. 490 00:34:57,202 --> 00:35:02,783 And this video looks like it compares the Steam Deck. 491 00:35:02,783 --> 00:35:04,483 wait, see if Noah has a video out. 492 00:35:04,483 --> 00:35:07,240 See if Noah from SteamedickHQ has a video. 493 00:35:07,610 --> 00:35:19,206 hold up I do have another video sorry no I have another video already queued up so give me one second sorry I don't yeah from Deckwizard 494 00:35:19,254 --> 00:35:21,137 Deckwizard, that's a good one too. 495 00:35:22,501 --> 00:35:24,024 We should get him on the podcast. 496 00:35:24,024 --> 00:35:25,326 to be a of the podcast. 497 00:35:25,326 --> 00:35:26,507 Let's see here. 498 00:35:26,688 --> 00:35:27,529 No. 499 00:35:28,732 --> 00:35:29,238 Yeah. 500 00:35:29,238 --> 00:35:31,980 Britain, time zones, etc. 501 00:35:32,976 --> 00:35:40,319 Okay, so if you look at it here, it does not look nearly as good. 502 00:35:40,610 --> 00:35:41,435 Mm. 503 00:35:42,001 --> 00:35:44,754 Yeah, looks like it's a fair bit more stuttery. 504 00:35:44,754 --> 00:35:48,948 Well, actually, do we know if they have the Day 1 patch? 505 00:35:48,948 --> 00:35:50,609 If he has the Day 1 patch? 506 00:35:51,008 --> 00:35:56,485 I do not, but this was actually recorded two days ago. 507 00:35:56,485 --> 00:35:59,969 I think the other one was three days ago. 508 00:35:59,969 --> 00:36:00,705 So the other. 509 00:36:00,705 --> 00:36:02,482 on, he just like kicked the shit out of that guy. 510 00:36:02,482 --> 00:36:03,601 Look, go back. 511 00:36:03,601 --> 00:36:05,062 I see that, that's so funny. 512 00:36:05,062 --> 00:36:06,015 This what? 513 00:36:06,092 --> 00:36:07,190 Or did I admit? 514 00:36:07,190 --> 00:36:07,673 Okay. 515 00:36:07,673 --> 00:36:10,358 All right, we just gotta trudge this. 516 00:36:12,546 --> 00:36:13,512 Yep. 517 00:36:13,512 --> 00:36:14,077 yeah. 518 00:36:14,077 --> 00:36:20,097 hold on, no, no, there's one where you like, spongebob- That's awesome! 519 00:36:20,995 --> 00:36:21,676 Nice. 520 00:36:21,676 --> 00:36:28,259 So yeah, Yasuke is very much, much more of a slow, hard-hitter. 521 00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:31,461 And there's two main characters, yeah. 522 00:36:31,461 --> 00:36:32,801 I think it looks cool. 523 00:36:32,801 --> 00:36:39,124 I can tell you right now though, I said that if it played well on the Steam Deck, I'd be buying it day one. 524 00:36:40,145 --> 00:36:47,881 What we're seeing though, this ghosting, this FSR is some of the worst I've probably seen. 525 00:36:47,881 --> 00:36:48,375 Mm-hmm. 526 00:36:48,375 --> 00:36:51,036 That is- that- I gotta say, that does look... 527 00:36:51,221 --> 00:36:52,359 pretty bad. 528 00:36:52,359 --> 00:36:54,429 It's pretty bad. 529 00:36:54,429 --> 00:37:04,861 The fact that there's like, like half of the time, like when he goes to hit someone, it seems like there's almost like a hit stun, like the game pauses, but that's really, it 530 00:37:04,861 --> 00:37:06,253 just looked like stutter to me. 531 00:37:06,253 --> 00:37:07,509 It doesn't look like it's. 532 00:37:07,509 --> 00:37:13,933 I think that's how the game works, it's to give you a second to recover so while you do combos and stuff, I think so. 533 00:37:13,933 --> 00:37:14,953 stutter though. 534 00:37:15,153 --> 00:37:16,093 I don't know. 535 00:37:16,093 --> 00:37:17,169 It's very weird. 536 00:37:17,169 --> 00:37:20,991 but honestly, I'm impressed at how well it does run on the Steam Deck. 537 00:37:20,991 --> 00:37:32,067 I will say this, I think they, if you want to play this on the Steam Deck, and I've watched this video through and I don't see like very inconsistent performance throughout 538 00:37:32,067 --> 00:37:36,059 it, we'll have to, let's see, like I'd have to see end game. 539 00:37:36,059 --> 00:37:37,900 But if you want to play this, like this is doable. 540 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:45,404 Like if you can play emulated games that look like garbage for, I shouldn't say they look like garbage, but you know, if it's a PlayStation 1 game, 541 00:37:46,241 --> 00:37:47,512 And you can play that? 542 00:37:47,512 --> 00:37:49,043 I feel like you can play this. 543 00:37:49,525 --> 00:37:50,897 Is it a little frustrating? 544 00:37:50,897 --> 00:37:52,267 Yeah, but... 545 00:37:52,267 --> 00:37:59,471 I think the Steam Deck, like the average Steam Deck owner's threshold of terrible performance is really low. 546 00:37:59,471 --> 00:38:07,304 Well, not really high, because Monster Hunter Wilds is one of the most played games on the Steam Deck. 547 00:38:07,785 --> 00:38:10,846 And this definitely looks more playable than... 548 00:38:11,146 --> 00:38:17,069 This definitely looks way more playable than Monster Hunter Wilds does, in terms of performance. 549 00:38:17,206 --> 00:38:20,439 he's getting like 40 frames a second on average right here. 550 00:38:20,439 --> 00:38:22,771 It looks like he might've changed some settings. 551 00:38:23,133 --> 00:38:23,871 Like that's... 552 00:38:23,871 --> 00:38:27,507 might just be the way he's recording it since he's using his fund to record. 553 00:38:27,687 --> 00:38:31,107 yeah, think he's using. 554 00:38:31,107 --> 00:38:31,428 whatever. 555 00:38:31,428 --> 00:38:34,848 Because he's not using a capture card. 556 00:38:34,848 --> 00:38:39,568 ninja, the female ninja now, and that could also be maybe a different, I don't know. 557 00:38:40,128 --> 00:38:46,088 But yeah, I think this is all using FSR 3.1. 558 00:38:46,088 --> 00:38:47,528 Let's see. 559 00:38:48,448 --> 00:38:48,709 Yeah. 560 00:38:48,709 --> 00:38:49,842 Naruto? 561 00:38:50,597 --> 00:38:52,301 How come she's not doing the Naruto run? 562 00:38:52,301 --> 00:38:52,818 What? 563 00:38:52,818 --> 00:38:57,561 if she was doing the Naruto run, I feel like you should be freaking out over that more than Yasuke. 564 00:38:57,561 --> 00:39:01,043 But at the same time, mean, if it's an. 565 00:39:02,104 --> 00:39:05,406 I was going to say, if it's like an unlock, like fun feature, I'm down for that. 566 00:39:05,406 --> 00:39:08,072 I don't know if I could handle it otherwise. 567 00:39:08,072 --> 00:39:08,929 Mm. 568 00:39:08,929 --> 00:39:10,324 Gamma, that's pretty cool. 569 00:39:10,538 --> 00:39:20,515 It looks really fun, but at the $70 price and to this performance, or like how it kind of looks, I think I'm just going to wait. 570 00:39:21,096 --> 00:39:28,320 But I am happy that at least does run and they and I feel like they fulfilled the promise that it is an a Steam Deck compatible game. 571 00:39:29,222 --> 00:39:37,567 with how with the threshold of what people and the Steam Deck community definitely is very this will be a very controversial take, I think, for some people. 572 00:39:37,668 --> 00:39:38,528 But. 573 00:39:39,384 --> 00:39:56,242 Baldur's Gate 3 runs like shit and like especially after the first portion and that is a very like long high like it's been played a lot for a very long time by Steam Deck players 574 00:39:56,242 --> 00:39:56,537 so 575 00:39:56,537 --> 00:40:00,509 fair though, Baldur's Gate 3 is a turn-based game. 576 00:40:01,660 --> 00:40:07,002 Yeah, and this is an action and the action is running at 30 plus frames per second. 577 00:40:07,002 --> 00:40:10,323 So that is doable for an action in my opinion. 578 00:40:10,323 --> 00:40:12,134 It just doesn't look as good. 579 00:40:12,134 --> 00:40:18,765 the FSR obviously is going overtime on the performance. 580 00:40:19,286 --> 00:40:23,087 But it still looks clear enough to where you could still battle people. 581 00:40:23,087 --> 00:40:25,911 It's just like if you were playing a Switch game is what it feels like. 582 00:40:25,911 --> 00:40:29,254 You know what Samurai game doesn't run all that well on the Steam Deck? 583 00:40:29,254 --> 00:40:30,198 Rise of the Ronin. 584 00:40:30,198 --> 00:40:31,049 it doesn't. 585 00:40:31,049 --> 00:40:39,683 No, like, I haven't tried this since the patch, since they released another patch, but when I played it, it did not run that well. 586 00:40:40,025 --> 00:40:42,809 And this looks like it runs better than that, even. 587 00:40:43,250 --> 00:40:51,429 If you want a samurai game that runs really well in the Steam Deck, at least from what I've played, I've only played the first third of the game on the Steam Deck, Ghost of 588 00:40:51,429 --> 00:40:54,153 Tsushima runs really well and looks really good, in my opinion. 589 00:40:54,153 --> 00:40:55,397 Yeah, Gozal's Achievement really good. 590 00:40:55,397 --> 00:40:57,232 I've already played it, but... 591 00:40:57,415 --> 00:41:00,885 I don't know how plays on the PC, though, to be honest, but I've already played it on the PS4. 592 00:41:01,937 --> 00:41:04,660 That's where the FSR does a really good job. 593 00:41:04,660 --> 00:41:05,782 It looks good. 594 00:41:05,782 --> 00:41:13,230 It's not like this where I don't think it has much ghosting and stuff like that because of the rendering. 595 00:41:13,612 --> 00:41:15,436 But yeah, I mean... 596 00:41:15,436 --> 00:41:17,559 Tsushima doesn't have a lot of ghosting? 597 00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:18,851 What even is the point there? 598 00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:25,851 Took you a second to think, it? 599 00:41:26,580 --> 00:41:30,224 Yeah, I was like, I'm not gonna go to that. 600 00:41:30,224 --> 00:41:31,344 You got me. 601 00:41:32,217 --> 00:41:42,994 So, James, if I were you, if you want to pick up this game, I would wait for them to remove the Denuvo DRM, because there's Denuvo in this. 602 00:41:43,490 --> 00:41:44,387 OK, yeah, that. 603 00:41:44,387 --> 00:41:45,452 a history of doing that? 604 00:41:45,452 --> 00:41:47,053 Removing DRM de novo? 605 00:41:47,053 --> 00:41:58,191 Well, my understanding is that Denuvo requires like a recurring license fee, so most games that ship with Denuvo will end up removing it. 606 00:41:58,191 --> 00:42:00,132 At least modern games. 607 00:42:00,913 --> 00:42:04,941 And then it also requires a Ubisoft account. 608 00:42:04,941 --> 00:42:16,712 in order to play and if you read some of the Steam Deck reviews on Steam, most of the negative comments about it are like, I can't play this game when I'm not online and so I'm 609 00:42:16,712 --> 00:42:17,902 gonna return it. 610 00:42:18,815 --> 00:42:26,335 So you have to be online, it's not like what Denuvo usually does where it authenticates like the first time and then you can go offline for like a week or two or something like 611 00:42:26,335 --> 00:42:26,967 that. 612 00:42:27,167 --> 00:42:32,352 I haven't, I have, says Ubisoft Connect made it impossible to launch the game offline. 613 00:42:32,873 --> 00:42:43,033 Should have the Steam Deck tick verified, the Steam Deck verified tick removed if you can't use this single player game on a portable console that, when it can't be played on 614 00:42:43,033 --> 00:42:43,493 the go. 615 00:42:43,493 --> 00:42:49,778 This is where I think the verified is broken partially and it's not for what they're saying. 616 00:42:49,778 --> 00:42:51,930 I think it should be verified and I think it should be a checkbox. 617 00:42:51,930 --> 00:42:55,594 I don't give a fuck if it plays online or offline. 618 00:42:55,594 --> 00:42:59,577 If you're gonna limit the game for me because of that, I'm gonna be upset. 619 00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:08,204 But I do wish it would say verified for always online or something like that and be very descriptive of what you can do with it. 620 00:43:08,265 --> 00:43:09,845 That's the part I like. 621 00:43:10,106 --> 00:43:11,383 I'm almost... 622 00:43:11,383 --> 00:43:17,143 always, unless I'm in the air, and even in the air, usually have Wi-Fi, have access to the internet. 623 00:43:17,843 --> 00:43:19,763 But other people might not, and that's fair. 624 00:43:19,763 --> 00:43:25,263 Like, I don't want to speak for them, but they definitely need to promote that this is an online. 625 00:43:25,323 --> 00:43:35,563 I will say with the DRM, they oftentimes, more and more these days, like you mentioned, Gardner, they will have the license up for a little bit and then remove it eventually. 626 00:43:35,563 --> 00:43:38,859 I'm seeing it more and more, too, that they'll... 627 00:43:38,859 --> 00:43:46,266 do this for the launch, they'll have the DRM to just kind of prevent piracy in the beginning to at least help, right? 628 00:43:46,266 --> 00:43:48,067 And then they remove it after like a month. 629 00:43:48,067 --> 00:43:49,859 So we'll see, they might remove it. 630 00:43:49,859 --> 00:43:52,383 Yeah, yeah. 631 00:43:52,383 --> 00:43:56,407 for like the pre-launch period because you know how content creators... 632 00:43:56,588 --> 00:44:05,938 I'm not saying some content creators do this, but I'm saying it is certainly possible for content creators to leak a game out to like the piracy crew early and then yeah, it 633 00:44:05,938 --> 00:44:06,716 happens a lot. 634 00:44:06,716 --> 00:44:13,256 a lot more than people realize that you'll get leaks because of stupid content creators. 635 00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:14,860 Most don't though. 636 00:44:14,860 --> 00:44:16,902 Most really respect that. 637 00:44:18,028 --> 00:44:25,988 Well yeah, you're not gonna get a second copy of anything if you break all those NDAs and stuff. 638 00:44:26,108 --> 00:44:29,508 Not even NDAs, like the agreements, explicit agreements. 639 00:44:29,808 --> 00:44:33,928 And you're also facilitating piracy, which is illegal. 640 00:44:34,148 --> 00:44:35,328 Should mention that. 641 00:44:35,679 --> 00:44:41,372 Yeah, so I don't know that that is a good note though. 642 00:44:41,372 --> 00:44:56,368 I think once they remove that you'll definitely maybe it will help with the FSR like we can bump the quality from performance to a little bit more quality on the FSR rendering 643 00:44:56,368 --> 00:45:04,081 that could help with that if so like this Honestly, I'm shocked that this runs as well as it does on the Steam Deck 644 00:45:04,343 --> 00:45:07,083 It feels like a console, I'll be honest. 645 00:45:07,083 --> 00:45:14,203 It feels like a console because it's 30, you I wish it was 60, obviously, but console games oftentimes play at 30. 646 00:45:14,623 --> 00:45:19,703 you can't be like with a Steam Deck and we have a topic coming up. 647 00:45:19,783 --> 00:45:22,703 It doesn't play AAA typically that well, especially when it comes out. 648 00:45:22,703 --> 00:45:25,303 So I will give it to Ubisoft. 649 00:45:25,303 --> 00:45:27,378 They actually did achieve that here. 650 00:45:27,378 --> 00:45:31,118 Yeah, I thought it was gonna be verified, then like it runs like crap like Remnant 2. 651 00:45:31,118 --> 00:45:32,363 You guys remember that? 652 00:45:32,499 --> 00:45:32,890 yep. 653 00:45:32,890 --> 00:45:37,270 I did not have a lot of faith that this was going to turn out as well as it did. 654 00:45:37,270 --> 00:45:38,930 So I'm gonna give it to them. 655 00:45:39,150 --> 00:45:43,250 I'm curious what other people's, let us know in the comments if you think otherwise. 656 00:45:43,250 --> 00:45:45,290 I'm curious what other people have to say. 657 00:45:45,390 --> 00:45:50,530 But at the end of the day on this controversial thing, I think the controversy is two things. 658 00:45:50,530 --> 00:45:58,270 I think that the Steambank verified was gonna be a controversy in itself and it ended up not, which I was happy to be proven wrong. 659 00:45:58,448 --> 00:46:07,383 But the controversy that Yesuke shouldn't be in this game or that the Japanese people are upset about it, let developers choose their creative route for this type of thing. 660 00:46:07,383 --> 00:46:10,764 If you're mad about this, you're just doing it for internet points. 661 00:46:10,764 --> 00:46:18,768 Like a lot of creators that are like, far right, will take this as a time to create content, because they need content. 662 00:46:18,768 --> 00:46:20,119 They're always trying to content farm. 663 00:46:20,119 --> 00:46:23,664 Those types of content creators, they need to be outraged about something. 664 00:46:23,664 --> 00:46:25,837 and this is not something that you need to be outraged about. 665 00:46:25,837 --> 00:46:29,741 And if you're outraged about this, I think you need to go touch grass personally. 666 00:46:31,184 --> 00:46:33,994 Yeah, the outrage grift is what it is. 667 00:46:34,734 --> 00:46:39,790 Yep, it's damaging, I think, to our society and to just having fun, I think. 668 00:46:39,790 --> 00:46:41,822 I think there's times to be outraged. 669 00:46:41,822 --> 00:46:47,148 But not over a video game about a historical figure that is historical fiction. 670 00:46:47,589 --> 00:46:48,930 You gotta touch grass. 671 00:46:49,671 --> 00:46:58,980 And I agree with you James, I think like this, it looks like it runs like fairly well for the hardware and like the scope and size of this game. 672 00:46:58,980 --> 00:47:05,445 So I will give it to Ubisoft for optimizing the game for the deck, which did not. 673 00:47:06,126 --> 00:47:07,000 No, no, dude. 674 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,363 fan of Ubisoft over here. 675 00:47:10,136 --> 00:47:11,338 and Unisoften. 676 00:47:12,380 --> 00:47:12,935 Yeah. 677 00:47:12,935 --> 00:47:21,955 shilling for Ubisoft But I'll tell you like I will I will give credit where it's due when it is deserved and it looks like they did the hard work and actually got the game running 678 00:47:21,955 --> 00:47:32,676 on the deck, which is a good thing I do not like their DRM scheme, but You know and the fact that it has to be online all the time that sucks, too But I will say props to them 679 00:47:32,676 --> 00:47:34,177 for getting it to actually work 680 00:47:34,247 --> 00:47:41,932 Alright, so we also have to talk about the fact that this was basically do or die for Ubisoft, let's be honest. 681 00:47:42,094 --> 00:47:46,161 Do you think Assassin's Creed Shadows will save Ubisoft in the end? 682 00:47:46,930 --> 00:47:48,151 I still think they're gonna struggle. 683 00:47:48,151 --> 00:47:50,413 I don't think it was good enough, but we'll see. 684 00:47:50,413 --> 00:47:51,374 We'll see what the sells are. 685 00:47:51,374 --> 00:47:54,776 think avid fans of Assassin's Creed will probably enjoy this game. 686 00:47:54,776 --> 00:48:01,242 It definitely looks like something that's unique, good, that's getting 80s, which I think Assassin's Creed typically gets. 687 00:48:01,242 --> 00:48:04,055 So they'll probably just at home with this, they'll enjoy it. 688 00:48:04,055 --> 00:48:10,660 What I like is to see the trend that I'm hoping other, that all Ubisoft maybe will even see. 689 00:48:10,660 --> 00:48:14,305 I'm hoping that a lot of Steam Deck, maybe I should buy this. 690 00:48:14,305 --> 00:48:15,477 But I will eventually. 691 00:48:15,477 --> 00:48:18,901 just got done spending a lot of money on other games during the sale. 692 00:48:18,901 --> 00:48:24,828 that's honestly secretly my real reason I'm not gonna buy this right now, but maybe in the next month or two I will. 693 00:48:24,828 --> 00:48:29,896 Because I wanna promote games that promote Steam Deck and optimize for it. 694 00:48:29,896 --> 00:48:34,572 I think I want this to be success for that reason alone. 695 00:48:34,799 --> 00:48:44,857 Yeah, I saw that they Said that they had reached 1 million players for Assassin's Creed shadows, which Not that's not sales but players 696 00:48:44,946 --> 00:48:49,322 Apparently an hour ago they just reached 2 million players, not sales. 697 00:48:49,322 --> 00:48:49,962 you go. 698 00:48:49,962 --> 00:48:50,862 There you go. 699 00:48:50,862 --> 00:48:59,582 Hopefully they listen to our advice to not have online, you know, always online for a single player and DRM. 700 00:48:59,762 --> 00:49:00,164 know. 701 00:49:00,164 --> 00:49:08,544 believe you can get Assassin's Creed Shadows through Ubisoft Plus or whatever the service is. 702 00:49:09,212 --> 00:49:13,715 So it's a subscription service so you don't have to pay $70. 703 00:49:14,386 --> 00:49:17,946 on sale right now too, from my understanding, or least it was earlier this week. 704 00:49:17,946 --> 00:49:22,186 So the service, I thought it was on sale. 705 00:49:22,586 --> 00:49:26,913 I heard it was I heard it was, but that was when I was streaming earlier this week. 706 00:49:26,913 --> 00:49:32,369 way they would put that on sale ahead of the highly anticipated Assassin's Creed game. 707 00:49:32,636 --> 00:49:35,482 I think, like you said, do or die kind of thing. 708 00:49:36,466 --> 00:49:48,459 But yeah, no real sales numbers, but I do think having subscriptions is arguably more worth it than having like raw sales because they can just keep recurrently, you know, 709 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:49,831 charging people. 710 00:49:49,941 --> 00:49:52,261 I mean talk to Microsoft about that. 711 00:49:52,362 --> 00:49:54,442 They claim that their stuff's not doing well. 712 00:49:54,442 --> 00:49:57,134 They could be doing some Hollywood accounting with that, but I don't know. 713 00:49:57,134 --> 00:49:57,985 I'm skeptical. 714 00:49:57,985 --> 00:50:02,626 think it's gonna, it sounds like it's doing really well, but I don't know how much money did they put into this though. 715 00:50:02,626 --> 00:50:04,420 So I'd like to see numbers. 716 00:50:04,420 --> 00:50:05,260 see situation. 717 00:50:05,260 --> 00:50:10,198 I think we'll hear more about it in like next month if the game actually saves Doobie Suffer. 718 00:50:10,198 --> 00:50:11,259 I'm wondering 719 00:50:11,375 --> 00:50:14,695 curious what the breakdown is of those two million. 720 00:50:14,695 --> 00:50:17,815 Like how many people are playing on the Steam Deck? 721 00:50:18,155 --> 00:50:24,715 If it's like 30%, that would be a huge number for Steam Deck sales. 722 00:50:25,152 --> 00:50:27,100 for PC wise or just altogether? 723 00:50:27,100 --> 00:50:31,282 Cause I feel like that would be a little too high for altogether, including console. 724 00:50:31,282 --> 00:50:31,804 I don't know. 725 00:50:31,804 --> 00:50:32,566 Yeah, that's true. 726 00:50:32,566 --> 00:50:33,148 Yeah, I would... 727 00:50:33,148 --> 00:50:36,997 If it's of PC players, I think it could be up to 30%. 728 00:50:37,117 --> 00:50:38,657 I think... 729 00:50:38,657 --> 00:50:40,177 yeah, I mean, I don't know, man. 730 00:50:40,177 --> 00:50:42,017 It's hard to know for certain. 731 00:50:42,317 --> 00:50:44,357 All we know for certain is that... 732 00:50:44,357 --> 00:50:45,496 Oh wait, hold on for a second. 733 00:50:45,496 --> 00:50:46,148 Yeah 734 00:50:46,148 --> 00:50:52,088 Didn't Steam Deck Gaming play this through Ubisoft Connect and not through Steam? 735 00:50:52,608 --> 00:50:55,728 Like, I thought I saw the title, but maybe I was mistaken. 736 00:50:56,286 --> 00:51:02,607 He played, so if you watched halfway through that video I had, he did GeForce Now. 737 00:51:02,607 --> 00:51:10,818 So if you saw it having 60 frames per second or, oh, 60 frames, he was just doing GeForce Now on the Steam Deck before he was running it locally. 738 00:51:10,818 --> 00:51:12,658 What's wrong with GeForce Now? 739 00:51:12,698 --> 00:51:14,584 There's nothing wrong with it, but. 740 00:51:14,584 --> 00:51:20,041 I'm just saying if he's doing like a performance video, he should maybe be, he shouldn't be using G for us now. 741 00:51:20,644 --> 00:51:21,657 Well, he did both. 742 00:51:21,657 --> 00:51:24,125 He did on the Steam Deck and then he did on GeForce Now. 743 00:51:24,125 --> 00:51:24,580 I don't know. 744 00:51:24,580 --> 00:51:26,008 It might have been a paid... 745 00:51:26,718 --> 00:51:28,155 Look at sponsorship. 746 00:51:28,211 --> 00:51:29,213 Yeah, I think it was a sponsor. 747 00:51:29,213 --> 00:51:32,298 I know that they've reached out to me at one point before, but. 748 00:51:32,298 --> 00:51:32,669 That? 749 00:51:32,669 --> 00:51:33,381 Wait, who? 750 00:51:33,381 --> 00:51:34,124 GeForce Now? 751 00:51:34,124 --> 00:51:35,055 Nvidia? 752 00:51:35,584 --> 00:51:39,412 they reached out to a bunch of people like a year and a half ago, so he might have been a part of that. 753 00:51:39,701 --> 00:51:49,331 Yeah, they gave me like premium access for a month in order to talk about like how they have the app that you can download now for the Steam Deck. 754 00:51:49,712 --> 00:51:50,466 Yeah. 755 00:51:50,466 --> 00:51:50,849 me. 756 00:51:50,849 --> 00:51:51,693 Feels bad, man. 757 00:51:51,693 --> 00:51:52,521 You got left out. 758 00:51:52,521 --> 00:51:56,973 Well, I used it for about two hours or a couple hours and I was like, yeah, cool. 759 00:51:56,973 --> 00:51:59,731 And then I made a little video and I never use it again. 760 00:51:59,731 --> 00:52:05,923 did a little video, or more or less, I mentioned it in a live stream and I didn't use it after that. 761 00:52:06,664 --> 00:52:09,898 Because I don't do online stuff like that very much. 762 00:52:09,898 --> 00:52:11,669 I like the idea and I like that it's an option. 763 00:52:11,669 --> 00:52:14,040 I'm just a local man. 764 00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:15,160 I like to do it locally. 765 00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,641 I don't like to stream it from a server. 766 00:52:17,704 --> 00:52:18,048 same. 767 00:52:18,048 --> 00:52:20,764 if you streamed it from your own server? 768 00:52:21,497 --> 00:52:30,317 That I'm trying to set up and Bazlight actually comes with Moonlight or whatever it's called, built in, so Sunshine. 769 00:52:30,317 --> 00:52:31,517 Didn't you use Moonlight to stream? 770 00:52:31,517 --> 00:52:32,607 I don't, I, it is. 771 00:52:32,607 --> 00:52:35,623 so sunshine is how you send it moonlights how you receive it? 772 00:52:35,623 --> 00:52:39,306 I tried to set it up once on my windows and it did not work out very well at all. 773 00:52:39,306 --> 00:52:43,389 But Bazite has it built in and so one day I'm gonna have that all set up. 774 00:52:43,389 --> 00:52:44,120 that's another thing. 775 00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:45,751 I've been researching home labs. 776 00:52:45,751 --> 00:52:50,014 I think Gardner's gotten me into this whole I wanna build my own home lab now. 777 00:52:50,033 --> 00:52:51,861 Dude, Home Labs are sick. 778 00:52:51,861 --> 00:52:53,171 I have a homelab too. 779 00:52:53,171 --> 00:52:55,639 I don't have one that's capable of streaming games yet. 780 00:52:55,639 --> 00:52:57,721 As much as I'd like to have one of those. 781 00:52:57,811 --> 00:52:59,081 That might be what I do with my 39. 782 00:52:59,081 --> 00:53:01,455 I'm gonna have a lot of fun this year, I think. 783 00:53:01,774 --> 00:53:13,215 Yeah, I've been thinking about like taking my desktop here with 128 gigs of RAM and turning this into my server and then using like the minis form AI X1 that I have and using 784 00:53:13,215 --> 00:53:25,455 that as my primary thing and then like remote desktopping into the server and doing video editing if I need to on that or rendering or playing games or whatever. 785 00:53:26,268 --> 00:53:27,347 Yeah, yeah. 786 00:53:27,347 --> 00:53:28,167 does. 787 00:53:28,739 --> 00:53:29,579 Yeah. 788 00:53:30,060 --> 00:53:42,010 Well, Linus has a couple different things that he does, but the biggest thing that he does is he has his desktop rack mounted in his server rack, and he remote... 789 00:53:42,010 --> 00:53:43,190 It's not a remote desktop. 790 00:53:43,190 --> 00:53:45,803 It's like a KVM, but it's remote. 791 00:53:45,803 --> 00:53:52,163 Yeah, like, I think he just has, I think, no, he uses fiber optics for like the wiring in his house to get better ranges. 792 00:53:52,163 --> 00:53:54,832 it's USB over fiber optic though. 793 00:53:55,116 --> 00:53:57,863 It's insane what his setup is. 794 00:53:58,329 --> 00:53:58,852 and not to- 795 00:53:58,852 --> 00:54:00,232 it's a $10,000 setup. 796 00:54:00,232 --> 00:54:01,168 It's ridiculous. 797 00:54:01,168 --> 00:54:04,268 No, I'm pretty sure it's more than $10,000. 798 00:54:04,628 --> 00:54:07,628 Like, the whole rack is probably hundreds of thousands. 799 00:54:08,014 --> 00:54:12,278 yeah yeah yeah, I'm saying just the USB of fiber optic setup is 10,000. 800 00:54:12,278 --> 00:54:13,615 Yeah, it's crazy. 801 00:54:13,615 --> 00:54:15,298 I saw his video about that. 802 00:54:15,298 --> 00:54:16,791 I would never. 803 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:18,734 Unless you can afford it. 804 00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:23,327 have ethernet in the house, so I'm just gonna use ethernet to do some of my... 805 00:54:23,357 --> 00:54:24,471 Well, yeah. 806 00:54:24,471 --> 00:54:26,164 10 gig ethernet in my house. 807 00:54:26,164 --> 00:54:31,701 Like I have two 10 gigabit switches, because I bought one and then I ended up needing more. 808 00:54:31,701 --> 00:54:36,756 So I bought a second one and I have two, like two and a half gig switches. 809 00:54:37,557 --> 00:54:42,320 So I've got like a whole bunch of like high speed internet or high speed networking here. 810 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:47,602 a NAS, I was sent to a NAS once, it's an all SSD NAS. 811 00:54:48,803 --> 00:54:52,446 And I also have a rack mount server that I got from some office. 812 00:54:52,446 --> 00:54:55,769 And it's on a filing cabinet, as you recall. 813 00:54:56,870 --> 00:54:58,074 And it's the- 814 00:54:58,074 --> 00:55:10,873 standard height like it's like six and a half feet tall and I have a NAS I have a Firewall a network a bunch of switches and Two like rack mounted PCs and they're all doing 815 00:55:10,873 --> 00:55:11,574 different stuff. 816 00:55:11,574 --> 00:55:12,398 It's pretty neat 817 00:55:12,398 --> 00:55:15,158 Yeah, I have the world's worst... 818 00:55:15,158 --> 00:55:17,690 ...helm lab set up, physically speaking. 819 00:55:17,690 --> 00:55:20,212 used to have a NAS and a bunch of other stuff kind of all connected. 820 00:55:20,212 --> 00:55:22,269 I had like a makeshift and I didn't like it. 821 00:55:22,269 --> 00:55:25,736 It just kind of fell apart and I haven't built it up since. 822 00:55:25,736 --> 00:55:29,919 But I am going to probably do like a more, I think this year is kind of the portable. 823 00:55:29,919 --> 00:55:32,442 So I'm going to be doing the smaller type. 824 00:55:32,883 --> 00:55:36,335 It's not going to be too crazy, but I'm going to try to fit as much as I can into that thing. 825 00:55:36,335 --> 00:55:37,606 So it's going to be fun. 826 00:55:37,826 --> 00:55:40,169 I want to do as much as I can on that thing. 827 00:55:40,261 --> 00:55:41,131 Mm-hmm. 828 00:55:42,776 --> 00:55:47,192 Speaking of hardware and all this fun stuff that it's it's good to nerd out about this stuff again. 829 00:55:47,192 --> 00:55:50,316 Nvidia GTC event happened, right? 830 00:55:50,316 --> 00:55:53,119 And they discussed next generation GPUs and hardware. 831 00:55:53,119 --> 00:55:54,921 And yeah, high tech. 832 00:55:55,434 --> 00:56:00,440 So there are some interesting things that took place there first and foremost. 833 00:56:00,621 --> 00:56:07,320 Nvidia was selling their 5080 and 5090s out of a food truck right outside of the venue. 834 00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,372 At MSRP, I should mention. 835 00:56:09,887 --> 00:56:13,215 I mean that was nice of them, I guess. 836 00:56:13,215 --> 00:56:14,770 At least they weren't, you know. 837 00:56:14,770 --> 00:56:20,327 Yeah, but to go to the event you had to like pay thousands of dollars anyways, so like it's not really... 838 00:56:20,408 --> 00:56:26,673 I mean, it certainly helps with like software developers getting their hands on these GPUs, because I'm sure they're having trouble too. 839 00:56:26,673 --> 00:56:27,714 anyways though. 840 00:56:27,714 --> 00:56:33,543 is, NVIDIA's all sorts of screwed up right now with their priorities, but whatever. 841 00:56:34,125 --> 00:56:34,583 That is. 842 00:56:34,583 --> 00:56:40,903 aside from that little tidbit though, announced a couple of professional GPUs. 843 00:56:40,903 --> 00:56:42,223 Lots of them. 844 00:56:42,223 --> 00:56:42,903 black one. 845 00:56:42,903 --> 00:56:43,363 Let's see. 846 00:56:43,363 --> 00:56:47,663 I think one of them was RTX Pro 6000. 847 00:56:48,623 --> 00:56:50,743 Or actually, is that what it's called? 848 00:56:50,923 --> 00:56:54,374 Yeah, RTX Pro 6000. 849 00:56:54,374 --> 00:56:58,527 So I haven't really done ray tracing in game development much. 850 00:56:58,527 --> 00:57:02,750 Like, do even need an RTX for doing actual development? 851 00:57:02,750 --> 00:57:05,191 You don't only need it when you're actually rendering. 852 00:57:06,112 --> 00:57:10,795 So is that for rendering maybe movies and stuff that uses RTX maybe? 853 00:57:10,795 --> 00:57:11,354 I don't know. 854 00:57:11,354 --> 00:57:12,105 know. 855 00:57:12,105 --> 00:57:14,846 But it's slightly more powerful than... 856 00:57:14,846 --> 00:57:16,758 It's basically like a Titan class card. 857 00:57:16,758 --> 00:57:22,140 It's basically like the 5090 with like triple the VRAM. 858 00:57:22,821 --> 00:57:24,641 And it's a little more... 859 00:57:24,922 --> 00:57:26,153 Let's just say a little more performant. 860 00:57:26,153 --> 00:57:27,836 5 or 10 % I think. 861 00:57:28,701 --> 00:57:30,386 But it does have a shit load of VRAM. 862 00:57:30,386 --> 00:57:34,977 I remember when people used to buy like these types of cards, like professional cards to play games on. 863 00:57:34,977 --> 00:57:37,891 It's just some of them got screwed over because they're not tuned. 864 00:57:37,891 --> 00:57:39,132 The drivers aren't tuned for games. 865 00:57:39,132 --> 00:57:41,733 They're tuned for professional work. 866 00:57:41,733 --> 00:57:44,844 So it's always kind of funny. 867 00:57:44,844 --> 00:57:46,597 You don't hear about it as much, but. 868 00:57:46,597 --> 00:57:49,570 96 gigs of VRAM sounds awesome. 869 00:57:49,570 --> 00:57:51,401 I, but you would never use that. 870 00:57:51,401 --> 00:57:54,852 Obviously it'd be for AI tasks and for professionals. 871 00:57:55,120 --> 00:58:04,009 Well, with these professional cards, what you could do for gaming is put it in a server and split it and do virtualized GPUs. 872 00:58:04,304 --> 00:58:07,866 True, true, which is probably what some of these use. 873 00:58:07,866 --> 00:58:10,808 Maybe that's what that RTX is for us. 874 00:58:11,089 --> 00:58:16,133 No, I think they virtualize actual 5080s, 5090s and stuff like that with GeForce now, right? 875 00:58:16,133 --> 00:58:17,694 I think it's individualistic cards. 876 00:58:17,694 --> 00:58:18,455 No? 877 00:58:18,455 --> 00:58:20,295 You think, okay. 878 00:58:20,295 --> 00:58:31,341 well, unless they have their own drivers, like internally that they don't release, it's not possible to like partition a GPU like a commercial, like a commercial grade GPU. 879 00:58:31,341 --> 00:58:40,333 Yeah, but to be fair though, this isn't video we're talking about and it's their, it's all of their stuff so I'm sure they do have that fabled mythical driver that they just don't 880 00:58:40,333 --> 00:58:41,454 have public. 881 00:58:42,333 --> 00:58:43,545 I mean, they probably do. 882 00:58:43,545 --> 00:58:49,863 And to be fair, it actually is possible to partition a GPU, but Nvidia artificially limits the capacity to do that. 883 00:58:49,863 --> 00:58:51,085 I should make that clear. 884 00:58:51,085 --> 00:58:52,527 Because AMD doesn't care. 885 00:58:52,527 --> 00:59:00,698 Like, their commercial graphics cards, if you have the right motherboard, you can actually set up a partition GPU across multiple VMs, and it just works. 886 00:59:00,698 --> 00:59:03,541 I've done it before, it's actually a lot of fun. 887 00:59:03,541 --> 00:59:06,472 just one GPU for multiple computers. 888 00:59:06,913 --> 00:59:07,443 That's cool. 889 00:59:07,443 --> 00:59:14,816 I've been wanting to do like a four-on-one like Linus did a few years ago, a four-on-one network PC. 890 00:59:16,057 --> 00:59:16,578 Yes. 891 00:59:16,578 --> 00:59:22,762 But I was gonna get four individual graphics cards, know, because motherboards will support that. 892 00:59:22,762 --> 00:59:24,138 Some will, especially server. 893 00:59:24,138 --> 00:59:26,931 think that's what Linus did. 894 00:59:26,932 --> 00:59:30,968 when he initially did it, he had four different like, GPs. 895 00:59:30,968 --> 00:59:33,782 I think they were like the 270X Fury or something like that. 896 00:59:33,782 --> 00:59:35,764 There were AMD cards for sure. 897 00:59:35,901 --> 00:59:46,440 Yeah, you just need a motherboard that has the correct IOMMU groups and then you can pass through different PCI slots essentially to different virtual machines. 898 00:59:47,196 --> 00:59:49,900 I had it all researched a few years ago, I almost did it. 899 00:59:50,322 --> 00:59:53,288 When I become rich one day, I will be doing that. 900 00:59:53,288 --> 00:59:56,794 But right now, it is not, I'll work on my home lab. 901 00:59:56,987 --> 01:00:03,217 So on top of this new GPU, they also announced the roadmap for future GPUs. 902 01:00:03,217 --> 01:00:06,912 See, Nvidia feature, GPU roadmap. 903 01:00:08,185 --> 01:00:09,247 yeah, there's a lot. 904 01:00:09,247 --> 01:00:15,748 Let's just say they're going to quote unquote make a lot of quote unquote GPUs, quote unquote. 905 01:00:16,139 --> 01:00:17,263 Hahaha! 906 01:00:17,867 --> 01:00:20,082 and they're gonna quote unquote sell them. 907 01:00:20,354 --> 01:00:21,949 That's like pretty much what they said. 908 01:00:21,949 --> 01:00:22,930 We're making stuff. 909 01:00:22,930 --> 01:00:27,244 sell them and then they're gonna quote unquote sell them for quote unquote MSRP quote unquote. 910 01:00:27,244 --> 01:00:30,090 And, man, it's gonna suck. 911 01:00:30,090 --> 01:00:35,159 We are in the darkest timeline with everything going on in the world, including this. 912 01:00:36,223 --> 01:00:38,828 Can't even get a GPU these days. 913 01:00:38,828 --> 01:00:40,350 Like, you can't get a GPU. 914 01:00:41,098 --> 01:00:41,469 did. 915 01:00:41,469 --> 01:00:48,798 I was hoping AMD would save the day, but you know how last week I was out of town trying to get a GPU? 916 01:00:49,199 --> 01:00:51,520 I could not secure one. 917 01:00:51,781 --> 01:00:53,642 I could not find one on sale. 918 01:00:54,363 --> 01:00:57,496 Like, I could not find one that was available at all. 919 01:00:57,496 --> 01:00:59,528 Not even the ones that are like over MSRP, too. 920 01:00:59,528 --> 01:01:00,919 Those are all sold out, too. 921 01:01:01,576 --> 01:01:10,623 I, with AMD, I feel like they probably did get ready to sell a lot and they, and people wanted it. 922 01:01:10,623 --> 01:01:15,227 There's a demand that people want GPUs and so they sold them. 923 01:01:15,227 --> 01:01:22,232 I'm not going to count out AMD quite yet just because they didn't have, you know, millions of cards available. 924 01:01:22,473 --> 01:01:25,035 I think they prepared, but I don't think they were ready for how many. 925 01:01:25,035 --> 01:01:28,890 So until I'm proven wrong on that, that's just how I'm gonna do it. 926 01:01:28,890 --> 01:01:31,874 Nvidia, I know artificially limits the supply. 927 01:01:31,874 --> 01:01:44,436 like in the sense of we have evidence from the past, like strong evidence of Nvidia doing that and prioritizing other things too, that it's a little shady with like the consumer 928 01:01:44,436 --> 01:01:48,031 grade graphics cards to a point where it's... 929 01:01:48,031 --> 01:01:54,013 I don't trust Nvidia right now to release a card that's gonna be available anytime soon. 930 01:01:54,902 --> 01:01:56,465 Fuckin' Nvidia, man. 931 01:01:56,981 --> 01:01:58,565 I'm not going to buy into it anymore. 932 01:01:58,565 --> 01:01:59,336 I'm sick of it. 933 01:01:59,336 --> 01:02:05,799 I'm sick of this artificial supply shortage that they're creating. 934 01:02:05,906 --> 01:02:09,146 Nvidia is truly doing their best to kill PC gaming. 935 01:02:09,146 --> 01:02:10,438 Let's just say that. 936 01:02:10,635 --> 01:02:21,595 or their brand, like they've also lost a lot of, I believe they're dropping too, but that's partially because of the AI bubble kind of going up and down and potentially 937 01:02:21,595 --> 01:02:22,126 popping. 938 01:02:22,126 --> 01:02:26,146 stop playing games, just make a bunch of cards. 939 01:02:26,146 --> 01:02:29,586 Even if it's like 50, I just want a 50 70 TI. 940 01:02:30,166 --> 01:02:36,666 Maybe, I mean, I think I'm gonna try to go for an AMD obviously, but like if I was gonna get an Nvidia, I'd just be getting a 50 70 TI. 941 01:02:36,666 --> 01:02:38,726 I don't want anything too... 942 01:02:39,155 --> 01:02:46,313 Too high, partially because they're just heaters at that point and they just wreck my room's comfort level. 943 01:02:46,313 --> 01:02:48,633 go down again, to be honest. 944 01:02:48,633 --> 01:02:52,373 Well yeah, we actually get stock as well. 945 01:02:53,314 --> 01:02:58,448 I'd the prices aren't even the what bothers me as much as the it's not even available. 946 01:02:58,448 --> 01:03:01,790 They charge so much and it's not even available. 947 01:03:02,031 --> 01:03:03,653 At least choose one. 948 01:03:03,653 --> 01:03:05,348 Dude, people will just buy anything. 949 01:03:05,348 --> 01:03:07,960 Speaking of- 950 01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:09,601 I mean, but they're losing money. 951 01:03:09,601 --> 01:03:13,400 They're playing this stupid game and don't really understand. 952 01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:16,304 I think they don't, I don't know. 953 01:03:16,605 --> 01:03:23,344 They're trying to play the the demand and supply kind of game and I just don't think it's, I think they're losing money. 954 01:03:23,713 --> 01:03:27,068 just letting scalpers buy all the GPUs at once too. 955 01:03:27,068 --> 01:03:32,623 That's also like equally bad too. 956 01:03:32,623 --> 01:03:35,755 how the Steam Deck was initially limited? 957 01:03:36,337 --> 01:03:38,699 like you had to wait in a queue. 958 01:03:38,699 --> 01:03:44,155 You know how Valve did the bare minimum to prevent scalpers from getting them? 959 01:03:44,754 --> 01:03:45,578 Bare minimum? 960 01:03:45,578 --> 01:03:46,935 I don't know if I'd say bare minimum. 961 01:03:46,935 --> 01:03:48,025 I think they did a lot. 962 01:03:48,025 --> 01:03:55,965 well, it's like, you need a steam account that's old enough to like, old enough to not, prove that you didn't just make a steam account to buy like a million steam decks. 963 01:03:56,365 --> 01:04:03,845 Yeah, and Val, that's, I would say that's like, okay, so maybe not the bare minimum, but it's not, it's not, it's not a hard thing to do. 964 01:04:04,385 --> 01:04:06,445 It just doesn't seem like a hard thing to do. 965 01:04:06,470 --> 01:04:09,542 Well, Valve had control of the whole process. 966 01:04:09,542 --> 01:04:11,182 They did not sell at retail. 967 01:04:11,182 --> 01:04:15,885 They sold it through their client and they had control over the whole process. 968 01:04:16,005 --> 01:04:26,809 Nvidia does not necessarily have control of that whole process, but they could make their retailers maybe have to do it that way. 969 01:04:27,949 --> 01:04:30,748 mean, yeah, think Nvidia has the power to do that. 970 01:04:30,748 --> 01:04:35,762 Yeah, but it's more complicated once you include other companies. 971 01:04:35,762 --> 01:04:43,036 Yeah, it just gets more complicated when you have other parties involved in that decision. 972 01:04:43,277 --> 01:04:45,027 Definitely needs to go that way. 973 01:04:45,027 --> 01:04:50,925 I think Switch, like Nintendo, think is gonna be forcing that more, because I think Switch really doesn't want scalpers to have it. 974 01:04:50,925 --> 01:04:55,260 But they also care more about the whole process, so we'll see what Switch 2. 975 01:04:55,260 --> 01:04:57,242 how that works with scalping. 976 01:04:57,242 --> 01:05:07,052 and also on top of new GPUs, Nvidia unveiled their workstation, like the new tiny workstations they've been working on. 977 01:05:07,052 --> 01:05:13,718 Some of them are big, some are tiny, but it has an Nvidia CPU in it and it's made explicitly for AI. 978 01:05:14,110 --> 01:05:16,091 Hmm. 979 01:05:16,091 --> 01:05:16,583 Okay. 980 01:05:16,583 --> 01:05:27,994 Yeah, AI, it's interesting to see where Nvidia's going with all this AI stuff, and I'm really curious to see price to performance compared to AMD, Mac, and some of these other 981 01:05:27,994 --> 01:05:36,735 AI chip steps coming out, because I really want my best bang for my buck to build my home AI pet, that's gonna be included in 982 01:05:36,735 --> 01:05:44,382 my lab so it's another reason i'm building it so that i have a home for it's like a dog house for my ai 983 01:05:44,382 --> 01:05:49,333 do you guys have anything else to say on this Nvidia thing or should we go on to the Snapdragon? 984 01:05:49,333 --> 01:05:51,265 I don't have much else to say about Nvidia. 985 01:05:51,265 --> 01:05:53,368 The Snapdragon G series is ramping up. 986 01:05:53,368 --> 01:05:58,435 This is a brand new series of Snapdragon G CPUs meant to go into various handheld devices. 987 01:05:58,435 --> 01:06:04,929 Of note is the most powerful of these, the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3. 988 01:06:04,929 --> 01:06:14,958 Damn, just freaking simplify this, which will be in the IONEO Pocket S2, the IONEO gaming pad and 1X player, 1X sugar. 989 01:06:15,128 --> 01:06:20,804 I think it's time to talk about the state of ARM devices is what Hitech wants to do. 990 01:06:21,289 --> 01:06:24,152 God, 1x player, 1x sugar, yikes. 991 01:06:24,152 --> 01:06:31,716 so let me just say, the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 is a terrible name, because I would have expected G stood for Gen. 992 01:06:31,716 --> 01:06:35,798 So if they just called it the Snapdragon G3, then that would have been a pretty decent name. 993 01:06:36,338 --> 01:06:38,139 But tech companies cannot. 994 01:06:38,139 --> 01:06:41,221 three of the generation three of this chip. 995 01:06:42,860 --> 01:06:44,813 It means there's six generations total. 996 01:06:44,813 --> 01:06:45,435 the Snap? 997 01:06:45,435 --> 01:06:49,707 it the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 by 3. 998 01:06:49,707 --> 01:06:54,607 Dude, it's USB all over again, Snapdragon G3 Gen 3. 999 01:06:54,607 --> 01:06:55,967 What a terrible name. 1000 01:06:55,967 --> 01:06:57,427 And that's not the only one they announced, too. 1001 01:06:57,427 --> 01:06:58,987 There were a couple of other ones, too. 1002 01:06:58,987 --> 01:07:00,058 There's like the, 1003 01:07:00,058 --> 01:07:00,639 see what they got. 1004 01:07:00,639 --> 01:07:04,972 They have the G2 Gen 2 and the G1 Gen 2? 1005 01:07:04,972 --> 01:07:06,068 What? 1006 01:07:06,530 --> 01:07:07,200 Hold on. 1007 01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:10,538 Hold on, so G doesn't stand for generation. 1008 01:07:10,538 --> 01:07:11,831 It's some other bullcrap. 1009 01:07:11,831 --> 01:07:12,523 No, doesn't. 1010 01:07:12,523 --> 01:07:13,705 Congratulations. 1011 01:07:13,705 --> 01:07:15,187 Like this is on them. 1012 01:07:15,187 --> 01:07:16,688 This is so annoying. 1013 01:07:16,869 --> 01:07:20,952 So yeah, Qualcomm Snapdragon G series specifications. 1014 01:07:22,134 --> 01:07:22,754 Yeah. 1015 01:07:22,754 --> 01:07:25,336 Gen three, Gen three, or G three, Gen three. 1016 01:07:25,336 --> 01:07:26,197 damn. 1017 01:07:29,060 --> 01:07:30,502 G one, Gen one. 1018 01:07:30,502 --> 01:07:34,144 They have a comparison chart right here that we're sharing if you're watching. 1019 01:07:35,126 --> 01:07:43,006 So is this the reason that Epic brought Fortnite and whatever to Windows 11 for ARM? 1020 01:07:43,006 --> 01:07:45,850 I'm not saying that's the reason, but I'm saying maybe. 1021 01:07:45,850 --> 01:07:46,991 Maybe. 1022 01:07:47,813 --> 01:07:51,293 But these are all Android devices, the devices we all mention, I believe. 1023 01:07:51,293 --> 01:07:55,786 Yeah, I he well. 1024 01:07:55,786 --> 01:07:57,277 even less useful. 1025 01:07:58,217 --> 01:08:06,217 Yeah, it does have the potential to, I know Windows is gearing up more and more for ARM again. 1026 01:08:06,217 --> 01:08:12,900 I know they had a big push a while ago, but it'll be interesting to see where these... 1027 01:08:12,900 --> 01:08:21,804 where these devices lie and where these G these these Qualcomm Snapdragon's lie. 1028 01:08:23,085 --> 01:08:24,925 Yeah, use an Adreno. 1029 01:08:24,925 --> 01:08:31,668 Yeah, it's another interesting thing is like I don't know how performant these actually are. 1030 01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,350 So like when I see this type of thing, I just don't know how to gauge it. 1031 01:08:35,350 --> 01:08:38,465 Like I see Snapdragon comes out. 1032 01:08:38,465 --> 01:08:38,981 I'm like, great. 1033 01:08:38,981 --> 01:08:40,626 That's the CPU. 1034 01:08:41,386 --> 01:08:46,763 I don't care about the CPU as much as I care about the GPU for gaming performance for me right now. 1035 01:08:46,904 --> 01:08:52,130 don't know how it is on, like the arm part is really as important for like power. 1036 01:08:52,452 --> 01:08:57,899 But beyond that, I'm like, how good are these devices gonna be? 1037 01:08:57,899 --> 01:08:59,020 Devices. 1038 01:08:59,060 --> 01:09:01,975 in the field like Retro Game Core. 1039 01:09:02,805 --> 01:09:03,440 Mm. 1040 01:09:03,440 --> 01:09:08,154 through, we should ask him sometime. 1041 01:09:08,154 --> 01:09:08,584 Yes. 1042 01:09:08,584 --> 01:09:21,398 But in the meantime though, I see IAneo now has two devices with this and I just want to say IAneo, they are best known for making a bunch of SKUs and then like releasing a new 1043 01:09:21,398 --> 01:09:23,879 one while yours still has yet to be shipped. 1044 01:09:23,939 --> 01:09:25,660 They've been dropping the ball in that regard. 1045 01:09:25,660 --> 01:09:26,980 What happened IAneo? 1046 01:09:26,980 --> 01:09:28,532 Where are my SKUs? 1047 01:09:28,532 --> 01:09:30,058 They're not making as many. 1048 01:09:30,269 --> 01:09:31,662 Where are my skis, Ioneo? 1049 01:09:31,662 --> 01:09:32,965 You've really fallen. 1050 01:09:32,965 --> 01:09:35,571 You're washed, as the kids would say. 1051 01:09:36,126 --> 01:09:37,307 washed. 1052 01:09:39,908 --> 01:09:40,628 I don't know. 1053 01:09:40,628 --> 01:09:50,092 All I know is the 1x sugar is unique and I do want it like I and Neil has been making unique devices too and I actually respect them for that meaning they push at least some 1054 01:09:50,092 --> 01:09:51,113 creativity. 1055 01:09:51,113 --> 01:10:04,318 just wish they would do it one generation at a time not 20 in one generation but the 1x sugar like 1x player tends to do a little bit I really don't like their name either but 1056 01:10:04,483 --> 01:10:07,515 I'll go ahead and let's look at that for a second. 1057 01:10:07,515 --> 01:10:18,015 the parent company is called OneNetbook and then they like made one X player and then they made Aokzui as well, if I'm not mistaken? 1058 01:10:18,675 --> 01:10:21,960 I don't know, it's a confusing mess of a company name. 1059 01:10:21,960 --> 01:10:25,309 I don't know, but we'll, we'll, I'm gonna turn the. 1060 01:10:25,309 --> 01:10:27,284 Yeah, the audio does not matter in this case. 1061 01:10:27,284 --> 01:10:29,537 No it doesn't and it will flag us. 1062 01:10:29,537 --> 01:10:30,477 Okay. 1063 01:10:30,959 --> 01:10:32,159 If we... 1064 01:10:33,122 --> 01:10:33,942 So... 1065 01:10:34,155 --> 01:10:35,918 It looks like a handheld. 1066 01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:40,931 But my god, it flips up and it's something else entirely. 1067 01:10:40,931 --> 01:10:42,351 a 3DS. 1068 01:10:42,818 --> 01:10:45,755 I don't know what the heck is going on with this device to be honest. 1069 01:10:45,967 --> 01:10:46,718 It's a transformer. 1070 01:10:46,718 --> 01:10:53,193 It is bizarre, but I will say this. 1071 01:10:53,193 --> 01:10:55,655 I don't know how it's gonna hold or how it's gonna play or whatever. 1072 01:10:55,655 --> 01:11:01,239 I wanna hold off until I can see it in someone's hands or whatever. 1073 01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:06,023 It looks promising and I actually, from like a... 1074 01:11:06,076 --> 01:11:07,179 Look at that! 1075 01:11:07,222 --> 01:11:09,731 Who would play- Dude, that is crazy! 1076 01:11:09,783 --> 01:11:11,064 I would play that. 1077 01:11:11,186 --> 01:11:14,080 But how does that even work? 1078 01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:15,022 Is this just two of them? 1079 01:11:15,022 --> 01:11:15,843 I think there's just two of them. 1080 01:11:15,843 --> 01:11:19,619 They're just kind of showcasing how maybe it could work. 1081 01:11:19,637 --> 01:11:22,047 do the controllers, can the controller straight up detest? 1082 01:11:22,047 --> 01:11:23,386 That'd be kind of cool. 1083 01:11:23,386 --> 01:11:24,467 Like in Joy-Con. 1084 01:11:24,467 --> 01:11:25,018 that's the thing. 1085 01:11:25,018 --> 01:11:31,691 I don't think they can, but I'm gonna say at least it's innovative. 1086 01:11:31,691 --> 01:11:39,072 I don't know if it's gonna do well, partially because it's also Snapdragon, or like it's, you know, it's armed. 1087 01:11:39,072 --> 01:11:40,977 probably going be super expensive too. 1088 01:11:40,977 --> 01:11:44,083 mean, making something like this cannot be cheap. 1089 01:11:44,436 --> 01:11:45,195 Hmm. 1090 01:11:45,195 --> 01:11:46,028 Yeah 1091 01:11:46,028 --> 01:11:49,357 So also one more thing too, I have one more question too I should ask. 1092 01:11:49,357 --> 01:11:49,999 sorry. 1093 01:11:49,999 --> 01:11:50,624 Can you hear that? 1094 01:11:50,624 --> 01:11:52,204 Can you hold that in the background? 1095 01:11:52,855 --> 01:11:55,038 a little bit, but we're good. 1096 01:11:55,510 --> 01:12:01,223 So, my first question is, how much is it gonna be? 1097 01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:02,922 I think that's gonna be the main deciding factor. 1098 01:12:02,922 --> 01:12:06,926 If it's like over a thousand dollars for this, then it's not gonna sell. 1099 01:12:06,926 --> 01:12:07,658 I don't think. 1100 01:12:07,658 --> 01:12:08,193 Second. 1101 01:12:08,193 --> 01:12:17,129 Because it's a mobile processor and a bunch of other things, sorry, I'm kind of scrolling around just to see if I could find anything on the price, but I don't know. 1102 01:12:17,129 --> 01:12:22,622 Like I personally, I do agree like this is gonna be expensive. 1103 01:12:24,164 --> 01:12:32,359 But how expensive and how well will this play 3DS games or can I watch something while I play? 1104 01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:34,834 I think it's an Android device. 1105 01:12:35,390 --> 01:12:36,918 So I don't know. 1106 01:12:37,573 --> 01:12:38,145 Yeah, I know. 1107 01:12:38,145 --> 01:12:39,858 Well, it is an Android device. 1108 01:12:40,783 --> 01:12:42,566 It's Android gaming device. 1109 01:12:42,889 --> 01:12:43,810 and it. 1110 01:12:45,116 --> 01:12:45,923 What? 1111 01:12:45,923 --> 01:12:47,237 There is no D-pad. 1112 01:12:47,237 --> 01:12:51,748 It's the stupid Nintendo Switch button thing that they have. 1113 01:12:51,829 --> 01:12:54,950 And I loathe the Switch. 1114 01:12:55,189 --> 01:12:58,262 I hate the Joy-Cons for that reason. 1115 01:12:58,262 --> 01:13:00,202 It is the worst thing Nintendo has ever done. 1116 01:13:00,202 --> 01:13:01,743 I understand what they did it for. 1117 01:13:01,743 --> 01:13:02,943 I really do. 1118 01:13:02,983 --> 01:13:05,864 And I guess it can be used for games like Mario Party. 1119 01:13:07,316 --> 01:13:07,996 Why? 1120 01:13:07,996 --> 01:13:10,207 Why did they do it here? 1121 01:13:10,207 --> 01:13:15,611 Well, I think it's supposed to be like, because I'm not apologizing for this. 1122 01:13:15,611 --> 01:13:16,611 I think it's dumb, too. 1123 01:13:16,611 --> 01:13:26,338 But you're supposed to be able to like flip the Joy-Cons, if you call them that, up and then rotate the whole device and be able to play it upside down. 1124 01:13:27,119 --> 01:13:37,766 Because if you look at it, the way like that, three by two screen is like you can flip that up and then you can flip the controllers around and then you flip it and you hold it 1125 01:13:37,766 --> 01:13:39,546 like it's a 3DS. 1126 01:13:39,546 --> 01:13:40,063 Ugh. 1127 01:13:40,063 --> 01:13:42,208 So I think that's what they're doing. 1128 01:13:42,210 --> 01:13:43,873 It's stupid, but you 1129 01:13:43,943 --> 01:13:48,043 I know man, it's all a of me. 1130 01:13:48,043 --> 01:13:49,263 It was versatile. 1131 01:13:49,299 --> 01:13:56,361 even says right here, play 3DS style games with dual screen setup or enjoy classic handheld mode for Android and emulated titles. 1132 01:13:56,361 --> 01:14:00,302 One X Sugar lets you switch controllers and transform seamlessly for any game. 1133 01:14:00,682 --> 01:14:01,972 The concept is cool. 1134 01:14:01,972 --> 01:14:06,934 I don't know, like in the sense of, I like where they're going. 1135 01:14:06,934 --> 01:14:08,714 I actually, like the design of it. 1136 01:14:08,714 --> 01:14:14,546 I don't, but the problem is design does not mean equal comfort or playability. 1137 01:14:15,366 --> 01:14:19,492 I like how unique it is, personally, but... 1138 01:14:19,492 --> 01:14:20,322 thick too. 1139 01:14:20,322 --> 01:14:22,168 Yeah, I do- 1140 01:14:22,168 --> 01:14:23,156 of like the design. 1141 01:14:23,156 --> 01:14:24,431 I understand that. 1142 01:14:24,716 --> 01:14:29,985 Yeah, like it kind of has to be, I don't want it to be too thin or else it's just going to not be comfortable. 1143 01:14:29,985 --> 01:14:32,329 I'm just curious what this is actually. 1144 01:14:32,350 --> 01:14:37,538 I wanted to share this because this is by far the most bizarre handheld I've seen in a while. 1145 01:14:37,539 --> 01:14:38,500 And so. 1146 01:14:39,489 --> 01:14:41,771 I want to check it out. 1147 01:14:41,871 --> 01:14:44,113 I think it should get a hold of one netbook. 1148 01:14:44,414 --> 01:14:48,216 If you're watching, you know who to contact, us three. 1149 01:14:48,929 --> 01:14:50,110 They might. 1150 01:14:50,794 --> 01:14:52,017 Because of that, I'm not going to comment. 1151 01:14:52,017 --> 01:14:52,975 But yeah, they might. 1152 01:14:52,975 --> 01:15:02,346 If you can open up the bottom left image there, like full screen, you have to use your dev tools to find the link. 1153 01:15:02,346 --> 01:15:03,797 It's really stupid. 1154 01:15:03,797 --> 01:15:07,220 But what is going on on the back here? 1155 01:15:07,768 --> 01:15:09,749 I like this one right here, the white one. 1156 01:15:09,883 --> 01:15:15,844 Yeah, like, because it looks like there's two sets of, I don't even know. 1157 01:15:15,844 --> 01:15:18,469 It looks like there's inputs or is that a speaker? 1158 01:15:18,469 --> 01:15:19,851 I don't get it. 1159 01:15:21,295 --> 01:15:22,761 It's very strange. 1160 01:15:22,761 --> 01:15:24,881 is a weird... 1161 01:15:24,881 --> 01:15:25,961 Oh. 1162 01:15:26,841 --> 01:15:28,941 So that's definitely the back. 1163 01:15:29,461 --> 01:15:31,633 I only see one set of like... 1164 01:15:31,844 --> 01:15:33,057 They have a fan. 1165 01:15:33,224 --> 01:15:33,637 Yeah. 1166 01:15:33,637 --> 01:15:41,511 I only see one set of controls, like on the outer control area, because you can see the bumpers and triggers. 1167 01:15:41,591 --> 01:15:42,353 So I don't think... 1168 01:15:42,353 --> 01:15:49,989 curious what that thing on the to the left of the screen like with that's got a light on it and it's kind of raised. 1169 01:15:49,989 --> 01:15:51,560 I don't know what that would be. 1170 01:15:51,676 --> 01:15:53,406 I think that's just the aesthetic. 1171 01:15:53,806 --> 01:15:56,950 yeah, it might be an indicator light or something. 1172 01:15:58,003 --> 01:16:02,219 Or what the black, I know this is a fan, but what's this black thing? 1173 01:16:02,656 --> 01:16:04,498 Yeah, I think that that's a speaker. 1174 01:16:04,498 --> 01:16:06,437 It kind of looks like one. 1175 01:16:06,471 --> 01:16:08,111 Or is this a speaker? 1176 01:16:08,351 --> 01:16:09,751 no, these are intake vents. 1177 01:16:09,751 --> 01:16:13,991 Okay, the top ones that look like they're intake vents, or they're outtake maybe. 1178 01:16:14,111 --> 01:16:15,651 Intake, out. 1179 01:16:16,431 --> 01:16:18,071 I don't know what that black thing is though. 1180 01:16:18,071 --> 01:16:19,731 It could be a speaker or a bass. 1181 01:16:19,764 --> 01:16:21,361 Yeah, that's very strange. 1182 01:16:21,361 --> 01:16:23,781 But it'd be weird because you'd have mono. 1183 01:16:23,781 --> 01:16:24,715 Why would you want mono? 1184 01:16:24,715 --> 01:16:25,448 You'd want stereo. 1185 01:16:25,448 --> 01:16:27,405 You want two matching. 1186 01:16:27,889 --> 01:16:32,135 And if you look at the other one, the like, so we're looking at the bottom left one. 1187 01:16:32,135 --> 01:16:39,563 If you look at the top right one, that's what the the screen flipped over and the two controllers flipped up. 1188 01:16:40,825 --> 01:16:41,836 It's interesting. 1189 01:16:41,836 --> 01:16:43,487 It is very strange. 1190 01:16:43,668 --> 01:16:45,912 It's a weird device for sure. 1191 01:16:46,177 --> 01:16:46,680 Yeah. 1192 01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:47,261 here for it. 1193 01:16:47,261 --> 01:16:53,988 I love seeing anomalies in this type of area, but I'm wondering if it's going to be successful. 1194 01:16:54,490 --> 01:16:58,681 I don't know for certain, but I certainly do want to try it out. 1195 01:16:59,115 --> 01:16:59,540 Yeah. 1196 01:16:59,540 --> 01:17:00,372 Yeah, same. 1197 01:17:00,372 --> 01:17:01,926 I want to at least fill it and play with it. 1198 01:17:01,926 --> 01:17:03,933 Honestly, I want to, maybe that's what it is. 1199 01:17:03,933 --> 01:17:05,928 I just want to like use it as a fidget spinner. 1200 01:17:05,928 --> 01:17:08,443 I'd honestly just play with it, but not actually turn it on. 1201 01:17:08,443 --> 01:17:08,735 funny. 1202 01:17:08,735 --> 01:17:10,918 That would be so funny if he did that. 1203 01:17:11,818 --> 01:17:15,239 There's a good chance like if it goes on discount, I might do it just so I can fidget with. 1204 01:17:15,239 --> 01:17:18,464 It's hitting that part of the brain that I just like to fidget with stuff. 1205 01:17:18,464 --> 01:17:19,306 Moving on. 1206 01:17:19,306 --> 01:17:21,829 The Smash Bros and Kirby creator mess... 1207 01:17:21,829 --> 01:17:23,443 I don't even know. 1208 01:17:23,443 --> 01:17:25,083 Masahiro Sakurai. 1209 01:17:25,300 --> 01:17:35,575 Thank you, encourages Japanese devs to pursue the sorts of games that Japanese gamers love and that they need to be pressured into making games appeal worldwide. 1210 01:17:35,575 --> 01:17:38,056 May not, need not be, yes, thank you. 1211 01:17:38,657 --> 01:17:41,818 So, what is this about? 1212 01:17:42,687 --> 01:17:51,887 So he was awarded the Art and Courage Prize from the Japanese government, this agency of cultural affairs. 1213 01:17:52,216 --> 01:18:10,326 And here's what Katsakura had to say, He goes on to explain the success of various Japanese games in the US market kicked off a trend of 1214 01:18:10,326 --> 01:18:12,858 making Americanized works, or Sakurai Nets. 1215 01:18:12,858 --> 01:18:18,023 You could say that there was a culture of following de facto standards by de facto standards. 1216 01:18:18,023 --> 01:18:24,529 is referring to practices that get adopted as widespread norms by an industry as an outcome of market competition. 1217 01:18:24,529 --> 01:18:35,908 However, Sakurai feels that people who love Japanese games aren't looking for this filtered experience, but rather, end quote he says, but rather, I think that they seek the 1218 01:18:35,908 --> 01:18:38,084 uniqueness and fun of Japanese games. 1219 01:18:38,084 --> 01:18:43,215 Hence the opinion that there's no need for Japanese developers to consciously adapt their works for audiences in the US or elsewhere. 1220 01:18:43,215 --> 01:18:50,690 He also says, in other words, think the ideal would be to make games the way you like, as those who agree with you will enjoy them. 1221 01:18:50,690 --> 01:18:58,031 So, a lot of people on the internet have been thinking of this as like, stop making games that are like, woke or whatever, but then that's not really the case. 1222 01:18:58,031 --> 01:19:06,536 It's just, if you're a Japanese developer and you're making games the way you want them, you should feel free to make games, continue to make games the way you like them, instead 1223 01:19:06,536 --> 01:19:08,278 of having to cater towards, you know... 1224 01:19:08,278 --> 01:19:11,789 Worldwide translate you may not necessarily like you know I'm 1225 01:19:12,387 --> 01:19:19,702 Yeah, if you want to make a big busted main character chick or whatever, go for it. 1226 01:19:19,702 --> 01:19:23,743 I don't care as long as you don't break any laws or go too weird, I guess. 1227 01:19:23,743 --> 01:19:26,917 Like weird as in like Lolita kind of thing. 1228 01:19:27,058 --> 01:19:28,662 Beyond that though, go for it. 1229 01:19:28,662 --> 01:19:32,421 make it as woke or anti woke as you want, but like whatever. 1230 01:19:32,421 --> 01:19:33,592 think that's crux of it. 1231 01:19:33,592 --> 01:19:35,120 Make games that you want to make. 1232 01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:38,138 Don't feel pressured by what's popular. 1233 01:19:39,076 --> 01:19:39,829 Yeah. 1234 01:19:39,829 --> 01:19:51,749 or do rage braid on it saying that all games are bad nowadays because you have to deal with someone that looks like a female, not a doctored up whatever female, you know, it's 1235 01:19:51,749 --> 01:19:53,801 like the Horizon Zero Donk kind of thing. 1236 01:19:53,801 --> 01:19:54,752 Mm-hmm. 1237 01:19:55,737 --> 01:19:57,123 Alright, that was a fun little topic. 1238 01:19:57,123 --> 01:19:59,634 Yeah, no, I very much agree with that. 1239 01:19:59,634 --> 01:20:05,294 But we should probably group these a little different next time because we're getting back into the Steam Deck world. 1240 01:20:05,914 --> 01:20:09,854 New AA or geez, I can't read it today. 1241 01:20:09,854 --> 01:20:12,145 AAA games too big for Deck. 1242 01:20:12,145 --> 01:20:15,025 So there's a digital foundry. 1243 01:20:15,025 --> 01:20:20,465 Do you want us to like watch it with audio on or do you want to just comment and I'll have it running in the pack? 1244 01:20:20,974 --> 01:20:25,614 I think we all get the gist of what Digital Foundry is saying though, to be honest. 1245 01:20:25,614 --> 01:20:29,414 I don't know if we need to watch the video, but it's up to you, James. 1246 01:20:29,783 --> 01:20:33,547 I'm going to play it, but we're not going to like, but as background for fun. 1247 01:20:33,547 --> 01:20:34,438 Okay. 1248 01:20:35,179 --> 01:20:37,112 Just go out of high tech. 1249 01:20:37,112 --> 01:20:42,387 So, lots of AAA games have been coming out and they simply do not run that well. 1250 01:20:42,387 --> 01:20:45,430 I've experienced one of them, Rise of the Ronin. 1251 01:20:45,430 --> 01:20:47,632 It does not run that well on Steam Deck. 1252 01:20:47,632 --> 01:20:51,535 I've also experienced Dragon's Dogma 2 and honestly that was a... 1253 01:20:51,535 --> 01:20:53,166 I had really good time with that game. 1254 01:20:53,166 --> 01:21:00,341 I know a lot of people had issues with like the microtransactions or whatever but I had lot of fun with that. 1255 01:21:00,522 --> 01:21:05,166 But the one thing that was really disappointing was that the game did not run that well on Steam Deck. 1256 01:21:05,166 --> 01:21:06,038 In fact, 1257 01:21:06,038 --> 01:21:09,598 I would go as far as to say it ran terribly on Steam Deck. 1258 01:21:10,258 --> 01:21:17,678 And then you have games like Assassin's Creed Shadows, where sometimes it actually runs pretty well. 1259 01:21:17,678 --> 01:21:18,578 Surprisingly enough. 1260 01:21:18,578 --> 01:21:20,158 I was genuinely surprised. 1261 01:21:21,058 --> 01:21:24,818 So we're getting to a point where lot of AAA games are starting to run terribly on the Steam... 1262 01:21:24,818 --> 01:21:26,778 Oh, like Blacksmith Wukong. 1263 01:21:27,938 --> 01:21:29,598 That's Dragon's Ogmah 2 right there. 1264 01:21:29,598 --> 01:21:31,129 Look, it runs terribly. 1265 01:21:31,129 --> 01:21:31,851 and looks terrible. 1266 01:21:31,851 --> 01:21:34,399 Like some of these games look so bad. 1267 01:21:34,399 --> 01:21:39,280 I'm like PlayStation 2 and 3 games are going to look better and perform better. 1268 01:21:39,280 --> 01:21:40,980 Dude, it's so blurry too. 1269 01:21:40,980 --> 01:21:42,840 I mean, that's my thing too. 1270 01:21:43,165 --> 01:21:44,015 Yeah. 1271 01:21:44,601 --> 01:21:45,461 What? 1272 01:21:46,275 --> 01:21:47,248 look, Indie Game. 1273 01:21:47,248 --> 01:21:48,389 Horizon... 1274 01:21:48,571 --> 01:21:49,844 Horizon Lego Game. 1275 01:21:49,844 --> 01:21:51,615 I can't believe they made a Horizon Lego Game. 1276 01:21:51,615 --> 01:21:53,058 not an indie game. 1277 01:21:53,058 --> 01:21:55,125 yeah, they make legal games for everything. 1278 01:21:55,125 --> 01:21:56,292 This is something. 1279 01:21:56,292 --> 01:21:59,134 My my my wife was going to really like this. 1280 01:21:59,134 --> 01:22:01,135 I'm going to pick it up for a while at one point. 1281 01:22:01,135 --> 01:22:06,539 She watched me play Horizon Zero Dawn, but I think she likes the Lego games more so. 1282 01:22:06,971 --> 01:22:12,455 Okay, like, I feel like Horizon isn't like popular enough to warrant a Lego game. 1283 01:22:12,455 --> 01:22:14,245 Maybe I'm just being the leadest. 1284 01:22:15,026 --> 01:22:17,768 Like I can see like Lego Batman. 1285 01:22:18,829 --> 01:22:23,411 Like Lego Batman, certainly, Lego Lego Star Wars. 1286 01:22:24,512 --> 01:22:25,581 But Lego Horizon. 1287 01:22:25,581 --> 01:22:26,422 lot. 1288 01:22:26,733 --> 01:22:27,897 I mean, this looks fun to me. 1289 01:22:27,897 --> 01:22:30,721 This looks like more fun than actual Horizon. 1290 01:22:30,721 --> 01:22:32,001 what I was gonna say. 1291 01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:33,841 No, it looks fun. 1292 01:22:34,483 --> 01:22:35,684 But yeah, there. 1293 01:22:36,465 --> 01:22:37,563 This I agree with. 1294 01:22:37,563 --> 01:22:39,949 I actually think this works really well. 1295 01:22:40,150 --> 01:22:45,073 I don't agree with the other Horizon like games that they're going with. 1296 01:22:45,073 --> 01:22:48,435 Hold on, we're showing her face, like, side by side. 1297 01:22:48,775 --> 01:22:49,806 There, pause it. 1298 01:22:49,806 --> 01:22:54,086 Look, look at how blurry the Steam Deck- I get it, look, look, look. 1299 01:22:54,086 --> 01:23:00,872 It's a PS5, it's not a fair comparison, but look how much blurrier it is. 1300 01:23:01,793 --> 01:23:05,446 And, I mean, the game runs pretty well on Steam Deck, so obviously it must be worth it, right? 1301 01:23:05,446 --> 01:23:07,160 Well, it looks like it runs pretty well, at least. 1302 01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:11,682 But you have FSR Shimmer, it's the one thing I- 1303 01:23:11,752 --> 01:23:13,491 I cannot stand FSR Shimmer. 1304 01:23:13,491 --> 01:23:14,693 It's terrible. 1305 01:23:15,003 --> 01:23:19,630 I can get over it depending what type of game, but that is pretty bad. 1306 01:23:19,630 --> 01:23:24,613 I think games should go back to just giving us dynamic resolution options. 1307 01:23:24,793 --> 01:23:28,136 Just give us that instead of trying to upscale everything. 1308 01:23:28,136 --> 01:23:32,578 I think games look better with dynamic resolution than they do with FSR. 1309 01:23:32,898 --> 01:23:35,469 I Here's the deal. 1310 01:23:35,469 --> 01:23:40,261 Like, for the most part, I don't like FSR. 1311 01:23:40,261 --> 01:23:47,664 Like, I turn it off and I just run a game at like a lower frame rate and I don't scale it up or at a lower resolution and I don't scale it. 1312 01:23:47,664 --> 01:23:48,575 Like, don't understand. 1313 01:23:48,575 --> 01:23:58,589 I don't I don't I like the like just the kind of bilinear normal scaling that that I don't think it adds more detail if you use FSR. 1314 01:23:58,589 --> 01:24:00,489 It just looks worse. 1315 01:24:01,546 --> 01:24:07,293 But with the Steam Deck specifically, what the the frame that we paused on like 1316 01:24:07,886 --> 01:24:18,371 You know, I generally don't pay attention to little details like that if it's an action game and I'm not gonna be like comparing one to one between the PlayStation 5 and the 1317 01:24:18,371 --> 01:24:19,211 Steam Deck. 1318 01:24:19,211 --> 01:24:21,312 So that kind of stuff doesn't really bother me. 1319 01:24:21,312 --> 01:24:26,875 What bothers me is when a game runs at lower than like 30 FPS. 1320 01:24:26,875 --> 01:24:32,357 Actually, generally I feel like 40 is kind of like the bare minimum for me when I'm playing a game. 1321 01:24:32,878 --> 01:24:38,310 Especially if it's an action game and it has to be like rock solid and that's where I take real exception. 1322 01:24:38,480 --> 01:24:49,720 Is like when the when game developers don't put in the work to actually optimize the game for the deck like and and that happens way too often right like I Don't know. 1323 01:24:49,720 --> 01:25:06,740 mean at least here like we're watching Digital Foundry play is that Ragnarok God of War Ragnarok and It looks like it's running at 40 FPS ish Yeah, and that's like 1324 01:25:07,642 --> 01:25:08,363 60ish. 1325 01:25:09,513 --> 01:25:19,069 metaphor and these types of games and their engine already runs really well with the Steam Deck typically, but wait, well. 1326 01:25:19,698 --> 01:25:20,561 dips in towns. 1327 01:25:20,561 --> 01:25:22,865 mean, I'm not that surprised. 1328 01:25:23,108 --> 01:25:24,712 Look, it's dipping right now. 1329 01:25:24,712 --> 01:25:25,344 Or maybe... 1330 01:25:25,344 --> 01:25:31,137 Yeah, it's, well, so it is a complex issue, honestly. 1331 01:25:31,137 --> 01:25:35,861 They can optimize it for consoles, and so I know that they could optimize it for the Steam Deck. 1332 01:25:35,861 --> 01:25:49,140 They need to, how many objects you have on screen or in the world that you're tracking and have functions or whatever it is running on those events, that is, will affect the 1333 01:25:49,140 --> 01:25:51,503 performance, and they need to do optimizations for that. 1334 01:25:51,503 --> 01:25:55,057 And it's not as easy as scaling the textures. 1335 01:25:55,057 --> 01:25:56,748 There's a lot more that goes into this. 1336 01:25:56,748 --> 01:25:58,651 Yeah. 1337 01:25:58,651 --> 01:26:12,918 one of the things that I have read about performance is that modern rendering pipelines need if if if a game has triangles that are rendered in a scene that are smaller than a 1338 01:26:12,918 --> 01:26:20,342 pixel, that is what is actually going to cause the most performance degradation and. 1339 01:26:20,512 --> 01:26:26,988 in a game that's running at 720p, that's actually going to be more likely to happen. 1340 01:26:26,988 --> 01:26:39,859 So what, I think the next Steam Deck might actually benefit from having a higher resolution simply so that like triangles being rendered are less likely to be smaller than 1341 01:26:39,859 --> 01:26:41,360 one pixel on the screen. 1342 01:26:42,246 --> 01:26:46,081 Even if, even if like you're gonna run most of your games at like 720p. 1343 01:26:46,081 --> 01:26:48,343 Well, that's the problem. 1344 01:26:48,343 --> 01:26:50,675 it's based on the resolution that you're running at. 1345 01:26:50,675 --> 01:26:58,171 So if you're running a game at 900p, if you're rendering it, then you're going to still have those issues. 1346 01:26:58,171 --> 01:27:05,948 it's going to be interesting because I trust Valve to actually make the right call on this too. 1347 01:27:05,948 --> 01:27:09,060 Like, perhaps having the Steam Deck. 1348 01:27:10,035 --> 01:27:14,555 stay at 700 or 800p or whatever would make the most sense to them. 1349 01:27:14,555 --> 01:27:19,526 But I don't know, I just want to see more like, wow, that looks terrible. 1350 01:27:19,526 --> 01:27:20,627 What is that? 1351 01:27:21,339 --> 01:27:22,451 What is this game? 1352 01:27:22,451 --> 01:27:23,802 Is this Veilguard? 1353 01:27:25,474 --> 01:27:27,555 I did not pay attention, I'm sorry. 1354 01:27:28,697 --> 01:27:33,117 This is, that's Space Marine, yeah. 1355 01:27:33,117 --> 01:27:44,448 So, I personally think the Steam Deck would benefit greatly from a bump up to like 1080 or 1200p depending on their ratio, screen ratio. 1356 01:27:45,340 --> 01:27:46,741 Personally, I like it. 1357 01:27:46,741 --> 01:27:54,205 I have a device that I've used devices that have like a seven to eight inch screen that have that resolution. 1358 01:27:54,205 --> 01:27:57,667 I like it, but it's not gonna be better for everyone. 1359 01:27:57,667 --> 01:28:00,628 And I upscale to it and it looks better in my opinion. 1360 01:28:01,829 --> 01:28:04,040 But what you're saying Gardner, it sounds interesting. 1361 01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:07,312 I'm curious if Valve would account for that. 1362 01:28:09,768 --> 01:28:14,536 I would imagine so, mean, Valve has like a massive crack team of engineers. 1363 01:28:14,536 --> 01:28:16,138 That is bad tearing. 1364 01:28:16,628 --> 01:28:20,185 Did they disable, like, did they enable tearing? 1365 01:28:20,185 --> 01:28:22,268 Sounds like they, seems like they might have. 1366 01:28:22,908 --> 01:28:23,776 Yeah. 1367 01:28:23,822 --> 01:28:25,685 I don't know. 1368 01:28:26,172 --> 01:28:31,482 It's a complex issue and honestly, think game devs should spend more time. 1369 01:28:31,482 --> 01:28:35,970 Like they should treat the Steam Deck like it's a console because it needs special attention. 1370 01:28:36,321 --> 01:28:44,450 Well, and optimizing for the Steam Deck will help a lot of other devices that are low performance or like low. 1371 01:28:44,591 --> 01:28:45,631 What is it? 1372 01:28:45,833 --> 01:28:46,653 Lower performance. 1373 01:28:46,653 --> 01:28:51,035 Yeah, essentially they they don't have as high of APUs or GPUs or whatever. 1374 01:28:51,035 --> 01:28:59,251 I think like targeting the Steam Deck would help like console games run better because, you know, console games don't, I'm not going to say they run terribly. 1375 01:28:59,251 --> 01:29:08,958 I'm not going to sit here and say that Dragon's Argument 2 does not run better on a PS5 than it does on like a lot of PCs, but I feel like it would help that out as well. 1376 01:29:09,579 --> 01:29:10,379 So. 1377 01:29:11,093 --> 01:29:21,139 You're right, and I think one thing that's really important is like it helps low-end PC games, PCs run more games at better frame rates. 1378 01:29:21,139 --> 01:29:27,603 And if you're targeting broader hardware support, then that means you're gonna have more customers, right? 1379 01:29:27,603 --> 01:29:30,424 So, yep. 1380 01:29:30,424 --> 01:29:33,987 Yeah, especially in this era where people can't pick up GPUs at all. 1381 01:29:33,987 --> 01:29:39,521 mean, yeah, you're have a hard time selling PC games if no one can get a GPU that can play games. 1382 01:29:39,521 --> 01:29:44,090 But the Steam Deck, the Steam Deck, you can pick that up right now. 1383 01:29:44,090 --> 01:29:47,091 I personally think this is a tooling issue, the more I think about this. 1384 01:29:47,091 --> 01:30:02,258 think this is a tooling issue, I think Godot, Unity, and Unreal would do really well if they could ship some type of presets for testing of consoles, Steam Deck, Mac OS even, 1385 01:30:02,258 --> 01:30:06,570 like that target performance levels. 1386 01:30:06,570 --> 01:30:07,580 I think that could help. 1387 01:30:07,580 --> 01:30:11,632 I don't know fully, like obviously that's a complicated tool, but... 1388 01:30:11,728 --> 01:30:17,485 I think tooling is where you would solve this and recommendations through the tooling. 1389 01:30:17,485 --> 01:30:19,001 I can see someone... 1390 01:30:19,001 --> 01:30:19,622 sorry, go ahead. 1391 01:30:19,622 --> 01:30:20,661 go ahead. 1392 01:30:20,982 --> 01:30:27,304 I was gonna say there's like really good debugging tools that Valve offers for the Steam Deck. 1393 01:30:27,445 --> 01:30:38,809 I don't know if you guys have ever used that stuff, but like you can, if you enable the developer menu in the Steam Deck, you can go in there and connect remotely and debug 1394 01:30:38,809 --> 01:30:42,090 remotely from your PC. 1395 01:30:43,471 --> 01:30:45,632 It's really, really cool. 1396 01:30:45,712 --> 01:30:57,385 Which is nice, but I want a step before that because I don't expect these people, until they realize how many people are buying Steam decks and buying their game on Steam deck to 1397 01:30:57,385 --> 01:30:58,416 go the extra step. 1398 01:30:58,416 --> 01:31:04,857 I want to be built in partially to these as a tool for the engine. 1399 01:31:05,838 --> 01:31:06,778 As the first step. 1400 01:31:06,778 --> 01:31:15,000 Then when you're finalizing and baking it to test it on the Steam deck and use those debugging tools, I'm talking about even before that to just 1401 01:31:15,610 --> 01:31:26,625 even when you're running the engine, and if you've ever used Unreal or Godot and all these, I actually don't know about Godot, but I think Unity has this where they'll have 1402 01:31:26,625 --> 01:31:33,887 sometimes recommendations or they'll do certain tips for the developer. 1403 01:31:34,308 --> 01:31:41,450 Maybe I'm just thinking of Unreal, but it'd be nice while you're working on stuff like, there's a lot of objects, a lot of events going on. 1404 01:31:42,171 --> 01:31:45,722 You should probably check that out. 1405 01:31:45,766 --> 01:31:57,122 I could see someone, if like the main Godot team doesn't go about doing it, I could see someone making a Steam Deck specific fork of Godot, like made to help with like Steam Deck 1406 01:31:57,122 --> 01:31:57,643 development. 1407 01:31:57,643 --> 01:31:58,241 could see. 1408 01:31:58,241 --> 01:31:59,722 think that would need to be done. 1409 01:31:59,722 --> 01:32:02,105 I think that would be the wrong way to do it. 1410 01:32:02,105 --> 01:32:05,507 think a tool, yeah. 1411 01:32:07,150 --> 01:32:09,752 Yeah, he did get featured on this, I forgot. 1412 01:32:11,474 --> 01:32:15,657 Yeah, it's a tool. 1413 01:32:15,938 --> 01:32:18,911 They don't need to fork it, they just need to make a tool to support it. 1414 01:32:18,911 --> 01:32:19,942 That's all they need to do. 1415 01:32:19,942 --> 01:32:22,264 I think forking it would be the wrong way to go. 1416 01:32:22,480 --> 01:32:22,791 and 1417 01:32:22,791 --> 01:32:33,227 know if this exists already, like they have, when I was developing the Android build of Doodlings, like you can deploy a test build. 1418 01:32:33,227 --> 01:32:38,419 very quickly just by clicking the little Android button and having your phone in debug mode and plugged in. 1419 01:32:38,539 --> 01:32:44,261 And it would be great if they had that for not just the Steam Deck but for other handhelds too. 1420 01:32:45,061 --> 01:32:51,254 I think the Steam Deck would be able to support that the best because it has built in debugging and deployment stuff. 1421 01:32:51,254 --> 01:32:54,485 So that would be cool to see for sure. 1422 01:32:54,896 --> 01:32:55,576 Yep. 1423 01:32:55,576 --> 01:33:03,551 I definitely think that they could go and especially if they're using telemetry and this is where telemetry is really nice. 1424 01:33:03,551 --> 01:33:17,948 And I know it's a little privacy wise and all that, but telemetry, if all the of these are all the major engines collected enough telemetry on how games ran based on the device it's 1425 01:33:17,948 --> 01:33:24,652 running on and how many events and what's going on, could actually get like, we're getting really deep into solving this. 1426 01:33:24,813 --> 01:33:25,280 Mm. 1427 01:33:25,280 --> 01:33:36,415 my fault, but we have a lot of work that needs to be done and there's a tool that I think people could create that could make a lot of money, that's what I'm saying. 1428 01:33:36,415 --> 01:33:49,011 So anyone that's really savvy at that type of thing and has the time, I'd make a tool that can help with developing Steam Deck and other games. 1429 01:33:49,011 --> 01:33:50,831 And now we're getting into another video. 1430 01:33:50,941 --> 01:33:52,805 So I will say this. 1431 01:33:53,720 --> 01:33:55,593 Alright, this is a lot of stick. 1432 01:33:55,593 --> 01:33:56,897 Okay, I it. 1433 01:33:56,897 --> 01:33:58,101 he's reading his story. 1434 01:33:58,101 --> 01:33:58,507 gosh. 1435 01:33:58,507 --> 01:34:07,887 Alright, so I will say a lot of people argue that the Steam Deck was never made for AAA games, but like if you look at all the prior marketing of the Steam Deck, like before it 1436 01:34:07,887 --> 01:34:16,587 was released, and even like during its heyday, you see they were primarily marketing that playing like AAA games. 1437 01:34:16,647 --> 01:34:21,407 And they were still fairly new games when the deck came out. 1438 01:34:21,427 --> 01:34:28,447 Like Jedi Fallen Order, Control, Control was a big one too. 1439 01:34:29,553 --> 01:34:36,306 And I guess Doom Eternal was a little older at this point, but like, come on dude, they were marketing AAA games. 1440 01:34:36,306 --> 01:34:42,870 And they maybe marketed like maybe one or two like indie games like Hades and Hollow Knight, I think. 1441 01:34:43,051 --> 01:34:43,696 I don't know. 1442 01:34:43,696 --> 01:34:50,955 So I don't think every game, every AAA game needs to play on the Steam Deck, but I think most should be able to. 1443 01:34:50,955 --> 01:34:56,668 And this just never, like even when the Steam Deck came out, not every AAA game played on it. 1444 01:34:56,668 --> 01:35:03,853 Do you think the Steam Deck 2 should be able to play every AAA game that has come out before the Steam Deck 2 came out? 1445 01:35:05,037 --> 01:35:05,470 Yes. 1446 01:35:05,470 --> 01:35:12,475 Well, okay, that's a little bit of a trap because there's some games that just aren't optimized at all. 1447 01:35:12,555 --> 01:35:18,471 So every big AAA game or every game that is like decent, yes, I think it should. 1448 01:35:18,944 --> 01:35:20,060 Yeah, I think... 1449 01:35:20,411 --> 01:35:21,233 Yeah. 1450 01:35:21,744 --> 01:35:33,980 I think here's the thing that I'll say is even after Steam Deck 2 comes out, I'm still going to be able to enjoy playing games on my original Steam Deck because it will be for 1451 01:35:33,980 --> 01:35:41,616 years to come, the original Steam Deck is going to have great performance for the types of games that I like to play, which are mostly indies. 1452 01:35:41,616 --> 01:35:49,858 You know, I kind of exposed how sheltered I am from the indie scene earlier when we talked about Assassin's Creed Shadows or whatever, but like, I just don't play those kind of 1453 01:35:49,858 --> 01:35:50,229 games. 1454 01:35:50,229 --> 01:35:53,592 I play indies and that's what it's great for. 1455 01:35:53,729 --> 01:35:56,489 Yeah, I played monthly indies too. 1456 01:35:56,569 --> 01:36:05,209 Yeah, but honestly man, I think Valve would be remiss to not give it a significant... 1457 01:36:05,209 --> 01:36:12,049 I mean, come on, Valve has been saying that they want a significant bump in performance for quite some time. 1458 01:36:12,249 --> 01:36:17,329 And I would have thought that, and know, RDNA 3.5, I would have thought that was a decent bump. 1459 01:36:17,329 --> 01:36:21,569 That's like a 50 % improvement over the deck, like, performance-wise, in theory. 1460 01:36:21,890 --> 01:36:23,703 But like, you know, I don't think Valve wants that. 1461 01:36:23,703 --> 01:36:25,509 I think Valve wants to go all the way. 1462 01:36:25,509 --> 01:36:32,466 I want to say same battery performance, but 100 % better performance. 1463 01:36:32,466 --> 01:36:34,833 Like, that'd be like, yeah. 1464 01:36:34,833 --> 01:36:44,573 Ryzen 9 AI chip that I used, that thing has amazing performance compared to the Steam Deck. 1465 01:36:44,953 --> 01:36:52,753 you know, running the game, running games at the same resolution as the Steam Deck, it's like two or three times as fast. 1466 01:36:54,193 --> 01:36:55,311 Dude, like... 1467 01:36:55,311 --> 01:37:03,466 Yeah, you run like the Tomb Raider benchmark, Raider Shadow Tomb Raider, and it's like 30 FPS, maybe 40 sometimes. 1468 01:37:03,466 --> 01:37:06,407 This can get like 60 to 90 FPS. 1469 01:37:09,450 --> 01:37:11,671 I have the the Minis Forum AIX1. 1470 01:37:11,671 --> 01:37:12,431 Yeah. 1471 01:37:12,897 --> 01:37:18,389 forgot they I thought you had the Asus Flow X13 that everyone was raving about 1472 01:37:18,929 --> 01:37:19,672 No, I don't. 1473 01:37:19,672 --> 01:37:21,133 We're getting there. 1474 01:37:21,153 --> 01:37:25,604 I kind of wish that Valve would upgrade it every three to four years. 1475 01:37:25,604 --> 01:37:27,224 That's just my opinion though. 1476 01:37:27,224 --> 01:37:35,524 like Gardner said, and I've seen a lot of people say this online, that they complain, well, if they do that, then it's gonna, you know, why? 1477 01:37:35,524 --> 01:37:37,144 It's gonna make the Steam Deck obsolete. 1478 01:37:37,144 --> 01:37:40,044 like, it can still play games. 1479 01:37:40,364 --> 01:37:44,324 The whole point in the PC world, the whole point is, 1480 01:37:44,650 --> 01:37:48,001 we get generational changes a little bit quicker than like consoles. 1481 01:37:48,001 --> 01:37:49,422 And I like that. 1482 01:37:49,422 --> 01:37:55,173 I like getting GPU, like the option to upgrade my GPU every two years if I want to. 1483 01:37:55,173 --> 01:37:55,846 I like that. 1484 01:37:55,846 --> 01:37:57,526 At least that's how it used to be. 1485 01:37:57,526 --> 01:38:04,509 Nowadays it's, you get to upgrade it whenever, you know, you can upgrade to the older generation when the newer generation comes out, cause you can finally find the older 1486 01:38:04,509 --> 01:38:04,969 generation. 1487 01:38:04,969 --> 01:38:11,603 But I, I like the idea that if I want to upgrade, cause I can play this one game, I can buy, 1488 01:38:11,699 --> 01:38:13,070 the device to do it. 1489 01:38:13,725 --> 01:38:19,154 I think that Valve's going to announce the next Steam Deck by the end of the year. 1490 01:38:19,175 --> 01:38:22,120 And I think we'll probably see it early next year. 1491 01:38:22,691 --> 01:38:23,663 I think so too. 1492 01:38:23,663 --> 01:38:28,446 I'm hoping, or at least some device that they've been working on, because they have three or four devices they've working on. 1493 01:38:28,446 --> 01:38:29,325 did. 1494 01:38:29,621 --> 01:38:36,529 And they also need to release it in every region in the world, and they need to release it at retail everywhere. 1495 01:38:37,013 --> 01:38:38,080 That's what I think. 1496 01:38:38,080 --> 01:38:40,972 the world's going to ex- Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1497 01:38:40,972 --> 01:38:42,053 Like, what's left, though? 1498 01:38:42,053 --> 01:38:47,336 So they did Asia, Austria, Africa, South America, too. 1499 01:38:47,336 --> 01:38:48,167 That's a good one, too. 1500 01:38:48,167 --> 01:38:51,379 yeah, Africa and South America I think are what's left. 1501 01:38:52,541 --> 01:39:00,524 And that is, it's just a supplier slash, it just takes a lot to get everything set up for this. 1502 01:39:00,524 --> 01:39:04,308 shipping consoles like Brazil, like South America and stuff. 1503 01:39:04,308 --> 01:39:05,740 know that can be really expensive. 1504 01:39:05,740 --> 01:39:11,919 And I've heard stories about like how the PS2 was like 2000 USD there in Brazil or something like that. 1505 01:39:11,919 --> 01:39:16,132 I don't know anything about shipping consoles in Africa though, to be honest. 1506 01:39:16,132 --> 01:39:19,325 Yeah, South Africa, especially specifically too. 1507 01:39:19,325 --> 01:39:22,807 I think they'll get there, but I don't know. 1508 01:39:22,807 --> 01:39:31,732 I think they're already like I'd like to see them ship more to uncover every aspect, but I'm not going to to expect Steam Deck 2 to be everywhere. 1509 01:39:31,732 --> 01:39:37,156 just where I only expect Steam Deck 2 to go where it's already available, including Australia. 1510 01:39:37,156 --> 01:39:37,697 But. 1511 01:39:37,697 --> 01:39:39,978 What Valve also needs to do 1512 01:39:40,784 --> 01:39:42,696 and that they've been slacking on. 1513 01:39:42,696 --> 01:39:45,277 Nvidia's had a team up, I believe, with some modders or something like that. 1514 01:39:45,277 --> 01:39:52,022 You guys can maybe correct me on this, but the Half-Life 2 needs an RTX version because ray tracing is the future. 1515 01:39:52,022 --> 01:39:54,625 And I know how you guys feel about this, and so I had to do it this way. 1516 01:39:54,625 --> 01:39:56,506 This demo is very interesting. 1517 01:39:56,506 --> 01:39:58,427 I don't know if you guys have played it, have you? 1518 01:39:58,550 --> 01:39:59,452 I've played it. 1519 01:39:59,452 --> 01:40:00,217 I have not. 1520 01:40:00,217 --> 01:40:01,808 I played it with my 3090. 1521 01:40:01,808 --> 01:40:07,848 If you want the best experience, need probably a 5080 to a 5090. 1522 01:40:07,848 --> 01:40:11,668 This is ridiculous, but I'm not kidding. 1523 01:40:12,208 --> 01:40:17,388 They do get the best performance to whatever their scaling is. 1524 01:40:17,428 --> 01:40:22,008 That being said, I actually really like the textures in it. 1525 01:40:22,942 --> 01:40:29,743 The actual RTX or the ray tracing that is, the actual ray tracing is very, very bright. 1526 01:40:29,743 --> 01:40:31,626 Let's just say that. 1527 01:40:31,626 --> 01:40:33,288 It starts in Ravenholm. 1528 01:40:33,288 --> 01:40:34,489 Is it Ravenholm? 1529 01:40:34,950 --> 01:40:35,752 Yeah, Ravenholm. 1530 01:40:35,752 --> 01:40:38,286 movie where there's like lens flares everywhere? 1531 01:40:39,606 --> 01:40:40,405 Not quite. 1532 01:40:40,405 --> 01:40:44,298 one because when Half-Life 2 came out, I think they were doing lens flares practices. 1533 01:40:44,298 --> 01:40:45,810 That's but that's the point. 1534 01:40:45,810 --> 01:40:50,133 It is in fact, I'm gonna share my screen because this is a topic that's near and dear. 1535 01:40:50,133 --> 01:40:50,834 It's Half-Life. 1536 01:40:50,834 --> 01:40:54,075 I'm gonna share my screen. 1537 01:40:55,737 --> 01:40:58,379 So you can see RTX on and off. 1538 01:40:58,379 --> 01:41:04,362 Now if it looked like this more like this, I don't know if you can see my cursor now you can. 1539 01:41:04,771 --> 01:41:08,152 If it looked like the RTX one more, I'd be like, okay, cool. 1540 01:41:08,292 --> 01:41:10,993 I wonder if this will actually, okay, cool. 1541 01:41:11,914 --> 01:41:15,135 But you can see how it blows out the lighting just a little too much. 1542 01:41:15,135 --> 01:41:20,928 Like the lumens on that light that they're showing is just too high. 1543 01:41:20,928 --> 01:41:23,558 It wouldn't be like that, I think, in the real world. 1544 01:41:23,639 --> 01:41:34,943 Plus the whole world itself is a little too bright as opposed to the original where it's a little darker, at least even in the original, I guess it's a little too light, but yeah. 1545 01:41:35,119 --> 01:41:37,326 I don't know, what do you guys think about this? 1546 01:41:38,012 --> 01:41:39,633 I have a lot to say. 1547 01:41:40,936 --> 01:41:45,021 I don't, I literally don't understand ray tracing. 1548 01:41:45,142 --> 01:41:55,275 Like, I mean, I get like that it simplifies the rendering pipeline for developers, but I think that I don't, just don't get like the cost of performance. 1549 01:41:55,828 --> 01:42:01,828 But like there's diminishing returns right off the bat when you enable RTX. 1550 01:42:01,948 --> 01:42:03,248 And I just don't understand it. 1551 01:42:03,248 --> 01:42:12,108 I'd rather be playing this game at 380 FPS on my Steam Deck than playing it at 20 FPS on my desktop. 1552 01:42:12,328 --> 01:42:13,248 know? 1553 01:42:13,408 --> 01:42:19,848 And I mean, sometimes it was like legitimately sometimes it was like in the 40s, but most of the time it felt like it was in the 20s for me. 1554 01:42:19,848 --> 01:42:22,228 Like it was, and I have a 3080, which. 1555 01:42:22,440 --> 01:42:24,464 You it's not the optimum thing. 1556 01:42:24,464 --> 01:42:27,469 You need at least like the 4000 series to do it, but... 1557 01:42:28,663 --> 01:42:32,026 Okay, so it was a demo, to be fair. 1558 01:42:32,026 --> 01:42:33,217 So it's not fully out yet. 1559 01:42:33,217 --> 01:42:48,480 it was like, think of it as an alpha of the demo because, and you guys can go watch my stream if you want, whoever's listening or high tech and Gardner, you can see the second 1560 01:42:48,480 --> 01:42:49,220 portion. 1561 01:42:49,220 --> 01:42:51,182 So there's two chapters that are available. 1562 01:42:51,182 --> 01:42:54,384 The second chapter is whited out, is a white out. 1563 01:42:54,384 --> 01:42:58,036 Like half the textures are missing and didn't render properly. 1564 01:42:58,036 --> 01:42:58,475 Mm. 1565 01:42:58,475 --> 01:43:00,096 playing through a white world. 1566 01:43:00,096 --> 01:43:10,198 if you know how Valve's orange, they have a placeholder for textures and models with orange. 1567 01:43:10,198 --> 01:43:11,679 It was like that, but just white. 1568 01:43:11,679 --> 01:43:14,339 So it was interesting. 1569 01:43:14,339 --> 01:43:16,040 It was very bizarre. 1570 01:43:17,140 --> 01:43:19,161 Very much early. 1571 01:43:19,781 --> 01:43:27,663 I'm hoping that they kind of tackled the performance, but I think this is supposed to be a show-off demo of NVIDIA's. 1572 01:43:27,663 --> 01:43:36,743 tech right so they're pushing as hard as they can with some of the like some of the lighting is very impressive someone's just overblown like I said I think this lighting is 1573 01:43:36,743 --> 01:43:37,960 too much 1574 01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:50,268 There's, I was, right when you enter Ravenholm, you go into that like courtyard area and there's the pair of legs that's just swinging from a branch or something. 1575 01:43:50,349 --> 01:44:00,756 And like, I walked up to those legs and I just watched them swing as, and I watched the shadow on the ground. 1576 01:44:00,756 --> 01:44:03,988 And the shadow was just this huge blob. 1577 01:44:03,988 --> 01:44:05,539 It was just amorphous. 1578 01:44:05,539 --> 01:44:07,380 It didn't look like, 1579 01:44:08,296 --> 01:44:21,800 Like the kind of shadow I would expect from a floodlight like that was projecting the shadow and and it also wasn't like that stark kind of like Inky black shadow that occludes 1580 01:44:21,800 --> 01:44:31,963 all the light coming from the the one light source And I was just like I just don't get it like I don't understand why Like it didn't look like a real shadow to me. 1581 01:44:31,963 --> 01:44:34,564 It just looked kind of meh 1582 01:44:34,564 --> 01:44:41,902 To be fair though, this is a mod made by obviously not Valve. 1583 01:44:42,084 --> 01:44:44,039 I would imagine Valve would do it. 1584 01:44:44,039 --> 01:44:48,542 It might be sponsored by Nvidia, but I don't even know if the modders are, are they actually getting paid though? 1585 01:44:48,542 --> 01:44:51,319 Okay. 1586 01:44:51,462 --> 01:44:53,640 which is part of NVIDIA. 1587 01:44:54,748 --> 01:44:55,690 So I feel like... 1588 01:44:55,690 --> 01:44:58,322 as they're getting paid, but still it is a mod. 1589 01:44:58,382 --> 01:44:59,823 It's a showcase. 1590 01:44:59,823 --> 01:45:05,347 I will say though, when you see spotlight lighting, I'm not impressed too much. 1591 01:45:05,347 --> 01:45:07,919 They need to tone that down and it doesn't feel realistic. 1592 01:45:07,919 --> 01:45:11,271 It feels uncanny valley almost. 1593 01:45:11,271 --> 01:45:16,755 I will say though, the shadowing on the bricks and textures, I loved it in this. 1594 01:45:16,755 --> 01:45:22,765 Like you can see the shadow because what they did is that they AI enhanced the textures and then 1595 01:45:22,765 --> 01:45:29,708 improve the bump maps on them so that they actually feel even more like individual bricks. 1596 01:45:29,708 --> 01:45:30,992 And you can really see that. 1597 01:45:30,992 --> 01:45:32,212 And I think that's where it's impressive here. 1598 01:45:32,212 --> 01:45:36,142 But I think the bright lights that are detract from. 1599 01:45:36,142 --> 01:45:46,106 So I do feel like if Valve were to actually have done this themselves, that I think they would have taken it into more consideration. 1600 01:45:46,106 --> 01:45:47,288 They would have made the... 1601 01:45:47,288 --> 01:45:50,872 I don't know, they would have done a better job. 1602 01:45:51,634 --> 01:45:53,091 But this is not what I'm about. 1603 01:45:53,091 --> 01:45:54,092 I agree. 1604 01:45:54,092 --> 01:45:56,122 And this is a mod to showcase stuff. 1605 01:45:56,122 --> 01:46:01,364 So I like to give them a like, this is not the de facto playthrough experience. 1606 01:46:01,364 --> 01:46:03,174 Once once they finish this, I don't know. 1607 01:46:03,174 --> 01:46:11,056 I think Half-Life fans don't even like the remake like the Half-Life source version of Half-Life. 1608 01:46:11,056 --> 01:46:12,997 I don't know if you guys have played that one. 1609 01:46:13,557 --> 01:46:14,657 I like it. 1610 01:46:14,657 --> 01:46:20,079 It's the one I like a little bit more, but I am in the minority with Half-Life fans on this. 1611 01:46:20,079 --> 01:46:22,069 They are very vocal about 1612 01:46:22,119 --> 01:46:27,160 which Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are the de facto versions. 1613 01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:31,325 I don't think this is gonna be de facto, but I think I'm gonna have a fun time playing through this once they release it. 1614 01:46:31,325 --> 01:46:43,222 Hopefully they optimize it because I was getting like 40 or 50 frames on the recommended and mine was set at like a medium to high, and it could go up two or three more. 1615 01:46:43,222 --> 01:46:45,599 And I was on a 3090. 1616 01:46:46,359 --> 01:46:48,740 So, yeah. 1617 01:46:48,740 --> 01:46:55,440 know is that the game crashed every single time I launched it. 1618 01:46:55,440 --> 01:46:59,500 Yes, I'm playing on Linux, right? 1619 01:46:59,500 --> 01:47:05,780 And I never quit the game by actually using the Quit Game button. 1620 01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:09,100 Every time, I could play it, right? 1621 01:47:09,100 --> 01:47:10,372 But like... 1622 01:47:10,372 --> 01:47:18,676 Most of the time when I got into the game, as I walked through the first doorway where you walk out into the courtyard, the game would crash. 1623 01:47:18,676 --> 01:47:19,796 Every time. 1624 01:47:19,796 --> 01:47:28,379 I got past that a few times, and I never got beyond that hallway that's full of explosive barrels. 1625 01:47:28,680 --> 01:47:30,760 Because the game would crash there. 1626 01:47:31,601 --> 01:47:33,162 It was just so... 1627 01:47:33,162 --> 01:47:39,324 And sometimes it wouldn't even get into the proper main game, it would just get to the menu, I'd click play and it would crash. 1628 01:47:39,912 --> 01:47:41,773 That's interesting. 1629 01:47:43,115 --> 01:47:47,797 Yeah, I played it on Windows and it was great. 1630 01:47:48,358 --> 01:47:54,783 Except, okay, it was great in the first chapter, the second chapter, like I said, it was really bizarre. 1631 01:47:54,783 --> 01:47:59,405 And then on top of that, it did crash right before I finished the whole thing. 1632 01:47:59,566 --> 01:48:01,233 So it did crash. 1633 01:48:01,233 --> 01:48:03,775 So yeah, yeah, yeah. 1634 01:48:04,276 --> 01:48:08,790 So I think this is supposed to be free, like if you own Half-Life 2, right? 1635 01:48:10,574 --> 01:48:11,892 That's pretty cool. 1636 01:48:12,743 --> 01:48:21,065 It is cool and I love seeing stuff like this and I want to see more of it, but it definitely is, you know, it has some work to be done. 1637 01:48:22,586 --> 01:48:23,266 Yes. 1638 01:48:23,266 --> 01:48:24,716 So the lights look really cool. 1639 01:48:24,716 --> 01:48:25,337 That's the thing. 1640 01:48:25,337 --> 01:48:28,858 Like the ray tracing works really well in certain parts. 1641 01:48:28,858 --> 01:48:30,318 Like the tiling works. 1642 01:48:30,318 --> 01:48:33,039 I think this is fine, but it's too bright up here. 1643 01:48:33,039 --> 01:48:38,390 Like at the top of this, like the original looks better, like where it's darker in areas. 1644 01:48:38,390 --> 01:48:40,431 That's how it would look. 1645 01:48:40,491 --> 01:48:41,262 It wouldn't. 1646 01:48:41,262 --> 01:48:45,275 This looks like, I don't know, it looks too bright in areas. 1647 01:48:45,555 --> 01:48:47,256 I don't think this is proper. 1648 01:48:47,357 --> 01:48:50,289 So too bright right here too. 1649 01:48:50,289 --> 01:48:57,604 That's my problem is that it ruins the atmosphere of Half-Life and they need to really tone that in. 1650 01:48:58,115 --> 01:48:59,832 JJ Abrams, is that you? 1651 01:49:00,353 --> 01:49:01,423 my gosh. 1652 01:49:01,864 --> 01:49:02,445 Right. 1653 01:49:02,445 --> 01:49:05,927 But like the textures and some other parts do like look really good. 1654 01:49:05,927 --> 01:49:15,343 Like they did a good job I think in a lot of it and where other parts they didn't like the glowing of the eyes I think looks amazing compared to the original. 1655 01:49:15,343 --> 01:49:19,176 But once again Half Life 2 has been out what 20 years. 1656 01:49:19,176 --> 01:49:19,622 So 1657 01:49:19,622 --> 01:49:21,213 years at this point. 1658 01:49:21,959 --> 01:49:26,693 Yeah, and Half-Life 2 Anniversary's been out for about a year almost. 1659 01:49:26,693 --> 01:49:28,454 Something like, not a year. 1660 01:49:28,454 --> 01:49:29,454 But yeah. 1661 01:49:30,516 --> 01:49:32,045 I'd rather be playing that, honestly. 1662 01:49:32,045 --> 01:49:32,816 pretty cool. 1663 01:49:32,816 --> 01:49:34,440 I can run it at minimum settings. 1664 01:49:34,440 --> 01:49:36,004 I have a 3070. 1665 01:49:36,004 --> 01:49:45,763 Yeah, yep, the 5080 with DLSS on, Ultra 4K 140, that's what it can do. 1666 01:49:46,644 --> 01:49:51,428 And this is Half-Life 2, this is a highly optimized game that was able to run on potatoes. 1667 01:49:51,428 --> 01:49:56,412 Like literally, I think almost someone was almost powered their computer with a potato, it feels like at one point. 1668 01:49:58,375 --> 01:50:02,188 So yeah, we don't need to go much deeper into this, we really like. 1669 01:50:02,363 --> 01:50:04,182 I'll be trying to run this on the Steam Deck though. 1670 01:50:04,723 --> 01:50:07,485 I tried, it does not work in this latest. 1671 01:50:07,877 --> 01:50:09,268 I'm not surprised. 1672 01:50:09,830 --> 01:50:11,102 I'm just surprised you actually did it. 1673 01:50:11,102 --> 01:50:16,399 I'm surprised you actually tried it, Cardner. 1674 01:50:16,887 --> 01:50:17,909 Well, I had to. 1675 01:50:17,909 --> 01:50:19,832 like I want I was I did it. 1676 01:50:19,832 --> 01:50:29,473 I was intending on doing like a video review and then I just wrote an article on my blog about it because I didn't want to be like a complete misanthrope video. 1677 01:50:29,473 --> 01:50:33,550 And this game doesn't run well. 1678 01:50:33,550 --> 01:50:36,636 This is everything wrong with Nvidia and AAA games. 1679 01:50:36,636 --> 01:50:41,153 Ray tracing unoptimized PC port of Half Life 2. 1680 01:50:44,036 --> 01:50:46,081 No, I like I said, I thought it was good. 1681 01:50:46,081 --> 01:50:47,223 I think it's a mod. 1682 01:50:47,223 --> 01:50:50,027 So I did you even get a play at much Gardner? 1683 01:50:50,214 --> 01:50:58,691 No, I spent like two and a half hours trying and not getting very far in the game and having it crash every time. 1684 01:50:58,691 --> 01:51:00,927 So I was like, you know what, I'm done. 1685 01:51:00,927 --> 01:51:04,275 Nvidia needs to get their shit together on Linux drivers too. 1686 01:51:04,277 --> 01:51:05,358 I think that's... 1687 01:51:05,420 --> 01:51:05,850 yeah. 1688 01:51:05,850 --> 01:51:15,112 Honestly, a lot of it was probably the Linux driver part because like anytime I would open the RTX menu or whatever, it would crash. 1689 01:51:15,112 --> 01:51:21,447 Anytime I would like, if it actually like successfully opened the menu, if I tried to adjust anything, it would crash. 1690 01:51:21,548 --> 01:51:26,052 So it's probably partly the game and probably partly the drivers. 1691 01:51:26,052 --> 01:51:30,697 And maybe even the go between Proton and the Linux system drivers, who knows? 1692 01:51:30,697 --> 01:51:34,749 I'm not an expert on these things, not Valve, Nvidia needs to get their shit together. 1693 01:51:34,749 --> 01:51:35,941 God damn it, Nvidia. 1694 01:51:35,941 --> 01:51:40,703 want to promote RTX and have this demo and have it be a showcase, like have it work on everywhere. 1695 01:51:40,703 --> 01:51:41,593 That's a very impressive. 1696 01:51:41,593 --> 01:51:47,455 If you want like to impress people, have it work everywhere you have drivers, including Linux. 1697 01:51:47,996 --> 01:51:55,050 But this probably also goes to show that I don't know if actually many gamers use, know, ray tracing with their games on Linux. 1698 01:51:55,050 --> 01:51:57,699 So, Steam accounted for more than half. 1699 01:51:57,699 --> 01:52:00,868 of all Monster Hunter Wild sells in the US. 1700 01:52:00,868 --> 01:52:03,373 That is interesting. 1701 01:52:03,457 --> 01:52:06,490 yeah, Monster Hunter's big on Steam, huh? 1702 01:52:06,490 --> 01:52:07,031 It is. 1703 01:52:07,031 --> 01:52:12,874 People have been clamoring for Monster Hunter on PC for years and then Monster Hunter World came out on Steam. 1704 01:52:12,974 --> 01:52:15,535 It blew up expectations. 1705 01:52:15,675 --> 01:52:23,970 It also killed Dotless, which I think Dotless' main gimmick was, it's Monster Hunter on PC and now no one wants to play it because Monster Hunter's on PC. 1706 01:52:23,970 --> 01:52:26,926 Monster Hunter is a very interesting series. 1707 01:52:26,926 --> 01:52:31,952 It's fun, but I'd rather be playing anything else unless I'm on the go. 1708 01:52:31,952 --> 01:52:33,655 Like this is a fun game on the go. 1709 01:52:33,655 --> 01:52:34,786 Like for me personally. 1710 01:52:34,786 --> 01:52:40,194 And I wish they would have spent more time like Assassin's Creed to optimize it for the Steam Deck. 1711 01:52:40,194 --> 01:52:51,470 think so too yeah I don't know man it seems like I'm not sure if it's Capcom's engine because they use an in-house engine they use a RE engine and you know generally you know 1712 01:52:51,470 --> 01:53:02,055 Resident Evil 4 runs an RE engine but it's also not an open world game whereas you know Dragon's Dogman 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds both don't run that well so I'm wondering if 1713 01:53:02,055 --> 01:53:07,684 maybe it just doesn't support it well not support it no what's the word I'm looking for 1714 01:53:07,684 --> 01:53:08,305 not as good. 1715 01:53:08,305 --> 01:53:15,819 If it's an open world game, if it has a lot of things going on in it, if it's loading a lot of stuff, the Steam Deck is going to be at a big disadvantage. 1716 01:53:15,819 --> 01:53:19,412 think that's, every handheld just struggles with open world. 1717 01:53:19,412 --> 01:53:20,852 Which makes sense. 1718 01:53:20,932 --> 01:53:28,957 When you don't have a controlled environment and you have so much more to load in if you're not loading in in a very specific way, you're just gonna get really bad 1719 01:53:28,957 --> 01:53:29,608 performance. 1720 01:53:29,608 --> 01:53:33,360 So that's, it's a win though. 1721 01:53:33,360 --> 01:53:39,234 Like I like seeing more and more stuff come to Steam and I like seeing a lot more people using Steam and using the PC. 1722 01:53:39,234 --> 01:53:42,396 means more goodness is gonna be coming our way hopefully. 1723 01:53:42,396 --> 01:53:45,298 And it's not gonna be, you we won't be forgotten anymore. 1724 01:53:45,298 --> 01:53:53,385 Like we're gonna have more more PlayStation exclusives and more and well, Xbox is always gonna be all their exclusives for our windows, so. 1725 01:53:53,474 --> 01:53:55,786 We did PC on top. 1726 01:53:56,216 --> 01:53:57,908 where we're eating good these days. 1727 01:53:57,908 --> 01:54:03,309 It makes sense more and more to just make a steam machine at home and just play off that. 1728 01:54:03,309 --> 01:54:04,169 did. 1729 01:54:05,157 --> 01:54:09,967 Yeah, so our last topic, Xbox's new interface mentions Steam. 1730 01:54:09,967 --> 01:54:12,671 I'm really curious how this is gonna work out. 1731 01:54:12,671 --> 01:54:22,680 So they have since removed this image from Microsoft's official website, but in a promotional image where it says opening a billion doors with Xbox and it shows all of 1732 01:54:22,680 --> 01:54:35,591 these Xboxes, including the, not including, but not limited to the Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, ROG Ally, MacBook, iPhone, and iPad. 1733 01:54:36,052 --> 01:54:38,838 There's a curious little, and a TV, there's a curious little screenshot. 1734 01:54:38,838 --> 01:54:40,158 There's a lot of filters. 1735 01:54:40,158 --> 01:54:42,321 One of the filter options is Steam. 1736 01:54:42,321 --> 01:54:54,061 Now, personal opinion, think this is Microsoft, you know, I think this is Microsoft remaking the Xbox app so that it like is an all-in-one launcher on PC. 1737 01:54:54,601 --> 01:55:05,052 You know, I think the GOG Galaxy on PC, I mean, I don't use it personally, but that does function as an all-in-one launcher. 1738 01:55:05,052 --> 01:55:08,028 And I think Xbox wants to do the same here too. 1739 01:55:08,306 --> 01:55:17,071 this is basically the Windows Vista games thing, do remember that? 1740 01:55:18,312 --> 01:55:29,099 Windows Vista, yeah, it, like, it would like scan your computer and find all the games you had installed and it would present them, but it's like in a controller driven UI. 1741 01:55:29,660 --> 01:55:30,480 And, 1742 01:55:30,600 --> 01:55:32,601 mode, this is Xbox's game mode. 1743 01:55:32,601 --> 01:55:33,482 They're working on it. 1744 01:55:33,482 --> 01:55:39,205 We know we've heard leaks and articles, I think, for the past month or two. 1745 01:55:39,886 --> 01:55:48,492 They are gearing up to it finally after how long, but this is, I think, their play, and this is how they're gonna be, everything's gonna be an Xbox kind of play. 1746 01:55:48,492 --> 01:55:52,975 And I think it's going to do well. 1747 01:55:53,236 --> 01:55:58,199 It is interesting that they have it on Mac. 1748 01:55:58,199 --> 01:56:01,601 like that looks like a MacBook and iPads and stuff. 1749 01:56:01,601 --> 01:56:04,393 I'm curious if that's gonna be native or just streaming. 1750 01:56:04,393 --> 01:56:12,298 I'm fine with streaming to a point, but having an all-inclusive UI like this on a lot of different devices would be nice. 1751 01:56:12,298 --> 01:56:17,421 I just don't know if I trust Microsoft to keep at it over the years. 1752 01:56:17,634 --> 01:56:20,153 I would certainly trust Microcentrum for Google, that's for sure. 1753 01:56:20,153 --> 01:56:20,849 I... 1754 01:56:20,849 --> 01:56:21,514 I... 1755 01:56:21,514 --> 01:56:22,309 Yeah... 1756 01:56:22,309 --> 01:56:23,711 don't trust Google. 1757 01:56:23,711 --> 01:56:25,373 Yeah, I don't trust Google at all anymore. 1758 01:56:25,373 --> 01:56:30,941 Like I am trying to get off almost every service I can at Google just because I don't know if they're going to take it away. 1759 01:56:31,763 --> 01:56:33,044 Microsoft. 1760 01:56:33,605 --> 01:56:34,091 Yeah. 1761 01:56:34,091 --> 01:56:36,202 I don't trust Google as far as I can throw them. 1762 01:56:36,202 --> 01:56:41,235 I have YouTube premium and I started seeing ads. 1763 01:56:41,235 --> 01:56:43,417 Like that's how awful Google is. 1764 01:56:43,417 --> 01:56:50,660 Anyway, I'm seeing them. 1765 01:56:51,821 --> 01:56:53,382 Yeah, here's the deal. 1766 01:56:53,382 --> 01:56:57,244 So this we have this steam filter, right? 1767 01:56:57,369 --> 01:56:59,385 I think that this 1768 01:57:00,037 --> 01:57:10,567 It makes sense for Microsoft to do this, but also I don't think that this is going to move the needle for Microsoft in any big way. 1769 01:57:10,567 --> 01:57:15,112 James, if you change to the next image, you can actually see the steam. 1770 01:57:15,112 --> 01:57:15,992 Yeah. 1771 01:57:16,133 --> 01:57:16,973 So. 1772 01:57:17,349 --> 01:57:25,655 If you click that, presumably, this is just a mock-up of the UI, but if you were to click that button, it would just show you your Steam games. 1773 01:57:25,655 --> 01:57:29,617 Would you be able to purchase games through Steam and through this built-in launcher? 1774 01:57:29,617 --> 01:57:30,818 I doubt it. 1775 01:57:32,379 --> 01:57:39,644 If you wanted to buy a game, it would present you with the purchases through the Microsoft Store or whatever. 1776 01:57:41,336 --> 01:57:51,143 It's interesting though, because this is like the kind of anti-competitive, like monopolizing thing that Microsoft was sued for in the past, right? 1777 01:57:51,143 --> 01:57:52,224 Like they would... 1778 01:57:53,284 --> 01:58:01,437 that there was antitrust because they were like excluding other browsers in the operating system back in the 90s. 1779 01:58:01,437 --> 01:58:13,151 And this at least, you know, they're including Steam here, but if they're squeezing out the ability to buy games through Steam in their UI, I feel like this would be grounds for 1780 01:58:13,151 --> 01:58:14,702 another antitrust case. 1781 01:58:15,669 --> 01:58:17,231 Well, let's hope they're not doing that. 1782 01:58:17,231 --> 01:58:19,453 they're allow you to pop up. 1783 01:58:19,453 --> 01:58:26,538 If it's a game mode, hopefully they're allowing you to pop up the steam overlay or UI to purchase. 1784 01:58:26,538 --> 01:58:30,251 So if you guys recall, I forget who it was. 1785 01:58:30,251 --> 01:58:37,167 Was it Phil Spencer that mentioned something about being able to get Steam games and Epic games on your Xbox, like, hardwares? 1786 01:58:38,069 --> 01:58:41,171 I wonder if this is also related to that as well. 1787 01:58:41,252 --> 01:58:43,924 Because, I mean, if you go back to the first picture... 1788 01:58:44,416 --> 01:58:49,472 you see the mock-up with, notably, these Xbox consoles. 1789 01:58:49,472 --> 01:58:53,636 And it makes me wonder if maybe that's Valve's, I mean not Valve's, sorry, Microsoft's aim is. 1790 01:58:53,636 --> 01:59:05,128 Like you probably wouldn't be able to buy Steam games on your Xbox, but the ability to just have them there at all is, let's just say it's a little crazy. 1791 01:59:05,683 --> 01:59:08,946 It's nice and it will be interesting to see how they go about this. 1792 01:59:10,068 --> 01:59:11,489 I I'm like Gardner. 1793 01:59:11,489 --> 01:59:17,655 I'm a little not maybe not quite as skeptical, but I am still skeptical on this on. 1794 01:59:18,256 --> 01:59:24,701 How Microsoft is going to do it and how much they're going to support other like Steam, Epic Games, stuff like that. 1795 01:59:24,822 --> 01:59:29,586 But if this is a game launcher and I can launch up, let's say with my. 1796 01:59:29,938 --> 01:59:41,838 Asus Ally, ROJ Ally that is then, and have it be into this mode and still be able to get into Steam somehow and purchase things, but still have like a game mode, I'll be very 1797 01:59:41,838 --> 01:59:43,029 happy about this. 1798 01:59:43,029 --> 01:59:46,050 But I will still, I don't know. 1799 01:59:46,050 --> 01:59:52,130 I think this is gonna be nice, but I am skeptical and I don't want them to push out any other. 1800 01:59:52,130 --> 01:59:54,990 I don't wanna buy games on Microsoft, I'll be honest. 1801 01:59:54,990 --> 01:59:56,970 Like I'll use it for a Game Pass. 1802 01:59:57,804 --> 02:00:05,242 I do like Game Pass, but all my games are going to get bought through Steam or Epic Games Launcher, most likely, or maybe GOG. 1803 02:00:05,242 --> 02:00:09,327 don't know, but I don't want to fracture my game collection too much. 1804 02:00:09,327 --> 02:00:14,720 Yeah, the thing is, this is going to be littered with ads. 1805 02:00:15,161 --> 02:00:26,887 It's going to try, Microsoft's going to try their damnedest to prevent people from making purchases anywhere else except through this app. 1806 02:00:27,768 --> 02:00:29,169 And I just... 1807 02:00:29,391 --> 02:00:41,787 You know, the reason that I earlier said Valve should get the Steam Deck 2 out, you know, in early 2026 and in retail is because this, like, I don't trust, I don't think Microsoft 1808 02:00:41,787 --> 02:00:48,750 is competent enough to actually execute on the plan that they have here to squeeze out Steam, which that is their plan with this. 1809 02:00:49,571 --> 02:00:52,853 But it's still a huge threat. 1810 02:00:52,853 --> 02:00:53,673 And... 1811 02:00:53,891 --> 02:00:59,086 Even if Microsoft is incompetent, this can definitely have negative consequences. 1812 02:01:00,064 --> 02:01:04,706 I'm just curious how they would make money if they didn't do what you were saying. 1813 02:01:04,706 --> 02:01:13,490 Like, why would you be doing this unless you were trying to push them to buy from your market, unless they have some deal with Steam or whatever, then maybe, I'm curious, like, 1814 02:01:13,490 --> 02:01:17,251 I wanna see what the end game is, and I don't have a lot of faith that it's gonna be... 1815 02:01:18,113 --> 02:01:20,614 It's probably your data, let's be honest. 1816 02:01:21,739 --> 02:01:22,884 Maybe. 1817 02:01:23,013 --> 02:01:27,893 want, so PC gaming is kicking the ass of both consoles, right? 1818 02:01:27,893 --> 02:01:29,844 Like PC gaming is huge. 1819 02:01:29,844 --> 02:01:37,904 And Microsoft has an avenue to capitalize and even monopolize PC gaming. 1820 02:01:37,904 --> 02:01:40,444 They already are kind of monopolizing PC gaming. 1821 02:01:40,724 --> 02:01:47,264 Like Windows is 90 % or something of the Steam hardware survey, right? 1822 02:01:47,404 --> 02:01:48,564 So. 1823 02:01:49,526 --> 02:01:53,944 This is their attempt to embrace, extend, extinguish. 1824 02:01:54,807 --> 02:01:57,436 And that's been their motto for ages. 1825 02:01:57,436 --> 02:01:59,657 I definitely, hate that type of mentality. 1826 02:01:59,657 --> 02:02:01,478 Amazon does the same thing. 1827 02:02:03,159 --> 02:02:06,360 And we have a lot of laws that allow for this. 1828 02:02:06,360 --> 02:02:12,443 We really need to close some of the stuff up to help with anti-trust behavior, that is. 1829 02:02:12,443 --> 02:02:19,906 And so I am still curious though, and I'm hoping that at least the UI, like, 1830 02:02:19,917 --> 02:02:24,531 I could play some of my game pass easier on every device, including my Steam Deck. 1831 02:02:24,531 --> 02:02:26,172 I'm hoping they go that route. 1832 02:02:27,053 --> 02:02:30,156 I'm planning for them to not, but I'm hoping. 1833 02:02:30,156 --> 02:02:35,701 My hope is that I'm planning for them to go anti-trust and to get in trouble again. 1834 02:02:35,701 --> 02:02:42,487 Well, it'll take four years from now because, but yeah, we'll see. 1835 02:02:42,487 --> 02:02:43,798 Maybe that's their plan. 1836 02:02:43,798 --> 02:02:46,550 They're going to sneak it in right now so they can get it through. 1837 02:02:47,362 --> 02:02:49,372 Yeah, anything else? 1838 02:02:49,372 --> 02:02:49,934 Hi, tech. 1839 02:02:49,934 --> 02:02:52,032 Anything else you want to say about this topic? 1840 02:02:53,692 --> 02:02:57,834 nothing in particular though, if I did have to mention. 1841 02:02:57,894 --> 02:03:06,779 If I had to go about it, I would say that it's probably less actually playing the Steam versions of the game as much as it is just like reading what games you own, then you get 1842 02:03:06,779 --> 02:03:11,020 to play the Windows Store version of those games instead. 1843 02:03:11,691 --> 02:03:13,932 If, you know, they sell that game. 1844 02:03:13,932 --> 02:03:15,377 That's what I'm 1845 02:03:15,377 --> 02:03:18,457 That would be even more nefarious. 1846 02:03:18,571 --> 02:03:19,497 Yeah. 1847 02:03:20,173 --> 02:03:23,719 That's what I'm thinking, that's what's gonna happen. 1848 02:03:24,088 --> 02:03:27,849 It'll be interesting to see if that plays out because I'm not buying stuff on Windows Store. 1849 02:03:27,849 --> 02:03:37,412 Like after the couple of debacles of how they've dropped the ball on integrating games into Windows in the past, I don't want to do that. 1850 02:03:37,412 --> 02:03:38,763 I'll do Game Pass though. 1851 02:03:38,763 --> 02:03:43,624 Like I like Game Pass for trying games out and to do certain things. 1852 02:03:43,624 --> 02:03:50,266 I like it for that, but beyond that, I'm not gonna be buying my games through this. 1853 02:03:50,761 --> 02:03:55,023 Yeah, I mean, you just have to remember that like there are a few things here. 1854 02:03:55,023 --> 02:04:01,946 First of all, Microsoft is a publicly traded company, which means that they don't answer to you with a customer. 1855 02:04:01,946 --> 02:04:03,617 They answer to their shareholders. 1856 02:04:03,617 --> 02:04:08,299 The other thing is that Microsoft is one of the kings of insuredification. 1857 02:04:08,299 --> 02:04:16,622 And if you don't like the way Windows 11 is has been heading in the last few years or even like before at Windows 10, then 1858 02:04:18,269 --> 02:04:26,726 this UI might seem like, this is going to be great for my RG ally or whatever, but give it just two or three years, guys. 1859 02:04:26,726 --> 02:04:39,497 And you'll quickly realize that what starts out as a really nice, good alternative that fulfills your needs and functions the way you would want and expect will become riddled 1860 02:04:39,497 --> 02:04:42,909 with ads, even more than you find in Windows Explorer. 1861 02:04:42,909 --> 02:04:44,581 Yeah, it's insidified, right? 1862 02:04:44,581 --> 02:04:55,661 no longer, once they've captured the market, it no longer caters to the end user, it caters to making them as much money as possible and frustrating you just enough that 1863 02:04:55,661 --> 02:04:58,454 you'll pay a little bit extra to disable the ads. 1864 02:04:58,474 --> 02:05:00,386 And that's what insidification is. 1865 02:05:00,386 --> 02:05:02,337 Like it's just horrible. 1866 02:05:02,394 --> 02:05:09,014 I mean, I'm an exception maybe, that frustrates me out of the market of just using their stuff. 1867 02:05:09,474 --> 02:05:14,934 I mean, even Windows 11, I only use it when I have to, I dual boot. 1868 02:05:15,034 --> 02:05:17,834 like when I first installed Windows 11, I'm like, this is fine. 1869 02:05:17,834 --> 02:05:18,994 I know a lot of people didn't like it. 1870 02:05:18,994 --> 02:05:19,814 I'm like, this is fine. 1871 02:05:19,814 --> 02:05:25,894 But then they started adding all the AI stuff into it in such a way that I'm like, this is not intuitive. 1872 02:05:25,954 --> 02:05:35,179 At least with Apple, they added it in a way and you can opt in and all the like they they make it so that you have to opt in if you want it and it's background. 1873 02:05:35,179 --> 02:05:39,292 It's not in my face on my tab bar or anywhere else. 1874 02:05:39,292 --> 02:05:42,483 Like it's just I'm kind of just done with that shit. 1875 02:05:42,584 --> 02:05:46,646 And I am a little worried with this, too. 1876 02:05:47,046 --> 02:05:49,017 I do like options. 1877 02:05:49,017 --> 02:05:52,189 I don't want this to be the option that bumps out every other one else. 1878 02:05:52,189 --> 02:05:53,890 I'm just hoping it's another. 1879 02:05:54,158 --> 02:05:57,841 contender in the space. 1880 02:05:58,022 --> 02:05:59,844 But you got me more worried now, Gardner. 1881 02:05:59,844 --> 02:06:00,532 Thanks. 1882 02:06:00,532 --> 02:06:01,493 Sorry 1883 02:06:01,699 --> 02:06:04,870 Damn, Gardener, you've destroyed his hopes and dreams. 1884 02:06:04,994 --> 02:06:07,136 My hopes and dreams are gone, they're squashed. 1885 02:06:07,136 --> 02:06:15,692 Nah, I'm still interested, but you guys should also be interested in what we're gonna be doing next week because we're gonna be ending this now, right? 1886 02:06:15,692 --> 02:06:17,382 We good to end this? 1887 02:06:19,124 --> 02:06:21,604 We good to end this and we good to... 1888 02:06:22,394 --> 02:06:28,757 If you also like good stuff and not being inshittified, you should make sure to follow us. 1889 02:06:28,877 --> 02:06:40,162 Like we mentioned earlier, subscribe, follow, comment, do whatever you need to do so that you keep on listening to our unshitified version of game news, I guess. 1890 02:06:40,162 --> 02:06:41,142 I don't know. 1891 02:06:41,142 --> 02:06:42,222 Tech news? 1892 02:06:42,323 --> 02:06:43,843 Well, yeah, tech news. 1893 02:06:44,043 --> 02:06:46,645 With a little sprinkling of games and stuff in there. 1894 02:06:46,645 --> 02:06:50,426 Okay, guys, if there's anything else you want to mention. 1895 02:06:50,697 --> 02:06:52,652 Do it now or forever hold your peace. 1896 02:06:53,375 --> 02:06:54,040 I'm good. 1897 02:06:54,040 --> 02:06:54,815 good. 1898 02:06:55,162 --> 02:06:56,644 Okay, we're all good here. 1899 02:06:56,644 --> 02:07:00,819 We're gonna go enjoy our week and we'll see you guys next week. 1900 02:07:00,819 --> 02:07:03,463 So have a good one, everyone watching and listening. 1901 02:07:03,463 --> 02:07:04,533 Thank you guys. 1902 02:07:04,691 --> 02:07:05,496 Thanks for watching. 1903 02:07:05,496 --> 02:07:06,073 take care. 1904 02:07:06,073 --> 02:07:07,065 later.